When the Western-backed and Muslim Brotherhood-led "Arab Spring" first rolled into Syria back in 2011, no one thought the country would turn into a desolate battlefield where regional powers would be directly fighting for their geopolitical preponderance. But that is exactly what happened. Much to its misfortune, Syria has unsuspectingly become a geopolitical chessboard and a showcase where regional powers are desperately vying for power and influence. Syria has become a very fluid and complex battlefield where Iranians, Iraqis, Lebanese, Turks, Israelis, Kurds, Saudis, Jordanians, Americans, Europeans, Russians and Syrians are fighting to preserve their vital interests and ensure their political survival in a rapidly changing world. And in a fascinating turn of events, two allies, the United States and Turkey now find themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield and Israel is facing a growing Iranian military presence right on its borders.Who could have predicted any of this?

Humanity is entering a new political era. The old political order is gradually giving way to a new one. The battlefields of Syria has become the place where a new world order is being born.Anglo-American-Jews had a very grandiose agenda in Syria: Topple Bashar Assad's government; expel the Russian and Iranian presence from within Syria; put into power in Damascus a Sunni Islamist government; create an autonomous Kurdish region in the north; and secure vital energy transit routes and oil fields in the east. Basically, the plan was to ensure the primacy of Western powers, Israel and Saudi Arabia in the strategic Middle East. But the laws of unintended consequences and unpredictable repercussions that audaciously reckless actions more often than not bring to bear, have created a situation that is now giving Western policymakers nightmares today.

Russia has suddenly and quite amazingly become the main political player on the ground in Syria. Russia's unexpected military intervention back in the autumn of 2015 - at a vital time when Damascus had lost control over much of Syria and was on the verge of collapse - has severely damaged the Western agenda. Russian air power and special forces have helped Damascus liberate much of its lost territories and deal a crippling blow to Western-backed Islamist militants operating in the country. Moscow achieved this historic success with very limited military assets and relatively few lives lost. Moscow has thus returned to the Middle East in force and much to the chagrin of Western powers it is today by all accounts the main power-broker in the Levant. And according to John Kerry, the game changer in Syria -

Yes, Moscow fortunately changed the equation in Syria. All the roads in Syria today therefore leads to Moscow. And Western-backed Islamic terror groups that have long targeted Russian interests around the world have suffered immense losses on battlefields far from Russian borders -

Speaking more of unintended consequences, Iran's regional influence, which Anglo-American-Jewish interests had hoped would recede as a result of what they started in Syria in 2011, has only increased, and significantly so. By fighting its enemies via proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan, Tehran has been able to keep its borders secure and its foes busy. In other words, Tehran has been able to take the initiative by taking the fight to its enemies and preserving its defensive depth; so much so that the Israeli leadership now finds itself directly confronting Iranian "assets" in Syria and Lebanon and has already begun suffering military loses. In other words, long feared by Anglo-American-Jews, Tehran has managed to bring the fight to Israel's (and Saudi Arabia's) borders and not the other way around -

Speaking more of unintended consequences: What's happening in south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria between Turks and Kurds is particularly fascinating. With their support for Kurdish autonomy going as far back as 2003 and increasing in recent years, Anglo-American-Jews have severely and perhaps irreparably damaged their relationship with Erdogan's government. The troubles between the two NATO allies can only get worst now as Erdogan has officially embarked his country on a war against Syria's Kurds; and Moscow and Tehran cannot be happier. But, again, I want to point out once more that the main problem Anglo-American-Jews have is not with Turkey per se but with the ruling administration in Ankara. So, as soon as the wannabe-sultan gets ousted from power and a pliable puppet is put back at the helm in Ankara, the Anglo-American-Jewish love affair with the "Incredible Turk" will resume. I therefore think it is appropriate to wish Sultan Erdogan the best of health and stamina. Let's hope Ankara bravely continues its journey away from NATO. Let's hope Ankara bravely continues its journey away from Anglo-American-Jews. Let's hope Ankara continues using its ties with Moscow and Tehran as a hedge against the West. Let's hope Moscow and Tehran will continue encouraging Ankara every step of the way as a way to put a wedge between Turkey and Western powers. And let's hope that Turkey does indeed get pulled-apart in the process.

Simply put: Ankara is using Moscow as a hedge, Moscow is using Ankara as a wedge. It's working out well.

In any case, Russians are playing their chess pieces brilliantly. Moscow is doing an amazing job of driving a wedge deep between Turkey and the United States, NATO's two largest members. Not responding in kind to the Turkish provocation/ambush of the Russian warplane two years ago has been paying off for Moscow in ways no one could have imagined at the time. What we have been seeing from Moscow in Syria is a brilliant display of Russian patience, diplomacy, discipline, marshal skills and strategic foresight. Russians are once again proving themselves to be the world's premiere grossmeisters of realpolitik. The best thing for Moscow, Tehran and Damascus to do at this point is to instigate, stand back and watch as Turks, Kurds and Anglo-American-Jews fight it out -

In all this, those getting screwed once more are Kurds. As it was back in the summer of 2008, when Western powers and Israel abandoned their favorite Russophobic puppet in former Soviet space to his fate when the Russian Bear militarily intervened in Georgia to protect South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Tbilisi's aggression, we once again have been shown how Western forces are eager to manipulate and exploited but also ready to abandon and run away when things get untenable. Kurds have once again been mislead and betrayed by their allies. Syria has been the showcase where Anglo-American-Jews continue proving they are treacherous; Turks continue proving they are barbarians; and Kurds continue proving they are one of the world's most easily manipulated people. Kurds have no one but themselves to blame for their fate. They brought the current crisis upon themselves ultimately because of their political illiteracy. Kurds had been trying to take advantage of Syria's tragedy by seeking independence from Damascus. Needless to say, Kurds were being prodded in their endeavor every step of the way by Western and Israeli intelligence services; including Armenian activists in the service of Western intelligence, such as the France-based Government of Western Armenia (which is run by former ASALA members operating under Western/French intelligence).

In a nutshell: While Syria had descended into chaos, Syria's Kurds sought independence from Damascus despite Damascus', Moscow's and Tehran's expressed objections and warnings, and they did so by jumping into bed with those who are responsible for the Syrian tragedy. Kurds therefore deserve their fate.Backstabbing Damascus thinking they will gain independence was one thing - that is realpolitik after all - thinking however that they will be helped by Western powers in times of dire need was a suicidal mistake. Similar suicidal mistakes have been made by many people, including us Armenians. Difference between Kurds and Armenians however is that we Armenians made that tragic mistake once, and that was one hundred years ago. Kurds have made this mistake continuously for many decades now. They will therefore continue paying a high price for their political illiteracy. What's more, even Westerners now more-or-less admit that Russia has defeated the Western agenda in Syria and that Russia is now the undisputed power-broker in the country. They may not come out and publicly say it, but even Westerners are now reluctantly admitting that all roads in the Middle East, Syria in particular, lead to Moscow. To their misfortune, and precisely because of their Anglo-American-Jewish fetish, it seems that Kurds were unable to recognize any of this. Again, it's ultimately their fault. Now, Russians, Iranians and Syrians will therefore sit back and watch as Turks and Kurds, both allies of Anglo-American-Jews, kill each other. Regarding the question as to why Moscow (or Damascus or Tehran) is not reacting forcefully to Turkish military incursions against Kurds inside Syria, the answer is quite simple: Why should they? Why would Moscow want to risk its newly normalized relations with Ankara by directly supporting Syria's Kurds if Syria's Kurds - against the wishes of Russians, Syrians and Iranians - are maneuvering towards independence with the help of Anglo-American-Jews? Why would Moscow want to risk its newly normalized relations with Ankara knowing full well that Ankara could (as it had not too long ago) make matters in Syria much more difficult for Russians, Iranians and Syrians? Moscow will therefore seek to keep ties with Ankara cordial. Not wanting hostile relations with Ankara is also observed in Moscow's dealings with Tel Aviv.In short: Moscow will not risk igniting a wider war, especially on behalf of Western-backed Kurds. From a Russian perspective, a prudent strategy vis-à-vis Syria would therefore entail helping create a situation in Syria where Turks, Kurds and Anglo-American-Jews instead find themselves opposed to each other and stuck in a quagmire. Getting the aforementioned into a serious three-way confrontation is fully in the interests of Moscow, Tehran and Damascus. It could therefore be said that Ankara
was being encouraged by Moscow, Tehran and Damascus to do the dirty work of stamping-out Kurdish
autonomy, at the same time not being allowed to be victorious. This is essentially why Damascus quietly began helping separatist Kurds soon after Turkish forces entered northern Syria. Simply put: It's conflict management and realpolitik.So, the strategy Moscow, Tehran and Damascus are pursuing is becoming increasingly obvious: Distract Anglo-American-Jews, weaken the Kurds' independence bid, sow discord between Ankara and Washington and take the military initiative.And, if lucky, somewhere along the way perhaps the two largest NATO members will come to blows. Nevertheless, at this point, the last thing Moscow, Tehran or Damascus want is to get into a serious military confrontation with Western powers, Turkey or even Israel. They will therefore instead concentrate their efforts on conflict management and liberating as much of Syrian territory as possible west of the Euphrates River.

In any case, had Kurds been capable of at least a little amount of political wisdom and foresight, instead of seeking independence from Syria, with the help of Anglo-American-Jews nonetheless, they would have instead allied themselves to Syrians, Russians and Iranians and concentrated their collective effort on seeking independence in Kurdish populated territories in southeastern Turkey. Their political shortsightedness has therefore backfired on them once more. Once more they have become unwitting cannon fodder for regional powers. Moreover, from an Armenian perspective, let's never forget that those directly responsible for the Armenian genocide were Turks, Kurds and Jews. So, as far as I'm concerned, let them kill each other all they want. I would be more than happy to watch.

Nevertheless, what's happening in Syria and elsewhere today is ultimately a desperate fight for geopolitical hegemony - coming at a time when the political climate of the world (i.e. the post Second World War global order) is changing and nations such as Russia, China and Iran are gaining strength. Syria in particular has become a theater where the region's major powers are engaged in a desperate geopolitical tug-of-war.

During the early stages of the conflict in Syria this struggle was fought mainly via proxies. Moreover, the unrest was strictly confined to the borders of Syria. Gradually this changed. Today, all of the major powers in question - Russia, Iran, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Western powers - are in various degrees directly involved in the fighting on the ground, and the bloodshed has at times spilled over Syria's borders and into Turkey, Iraq and Lebanon. No one could have foreseen any of this when the unrest in Syria first began in 2011, although many observers at the time did warn about the dangerous nature of the conflict in Syria and the potential it had to draw regional powers into its fire. Syria today has evolved into a battlefield that is very unpredictable, very volatile and very complicated. Syria today is where various major powers are on the ground and desperately fighting to preserve their strategic interests. As such, Syria continues to be a very volatile powder keg, and the most likely trigger for the next world war.

Western allies with interests in Syria (i.e. Saudi
Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and Turkey) were of course recruited into this endeavor
as well. The overall calculus behind the war in Syria is also why Yemen was attacked and continues to suffer
tremendously to this day. In an interesting turn of events, however, Ankara stopped following the Western playbook due to
serious complications between it and Washington, and it has been trying to go it
alone. This is making the situation on the ground all the more volatile, unpredictable and
complicated. In
any case, as I have said before, if a greater regional war is not
unintentionally triggered, ultimately, the fighting in Syria will
inevitably become a stalemate. Although with
Russian and Iranian support, Damascus has survived and has been able to liberate much it
its territory from Anglo-American-Jewish-Saudi backed Islamist terror
groups, there will not be any clear winners in Syria in the end.

Anti-Syrian interests were not able to defeat the government in Damascus and
expel Russians, Iranians or the Hezbollah from inside Syria. One of the
unintended consequences of their actions in Syria was in fact the
significant increase of Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah presence and influence in the
country. There is now a powerful Russian military presence in Syria and from the looks of it, it will be there for well into the foreseeable future. Syria however is for the most part destroyed,
hundreds-of-thousands its citizens have been killed, millions hurt and millions displaced. What's more, geostrategically speaking, Tehran has thus far been
unable to create a viable land link from Lebanon to Afghanistan.
Finally, a Western military presence seems firmly entrenched in eastern Syria. I don't see Americans troops abandoning this region anytime soon. So, like I said, there will not be any clear winners or losers in Syria.

To summarize what has happened in Syria in recent years: In 2008, Moscow and Damascus began strengthening their long neglected ties, and there was serious talk about Moscow providing Damascus with sophisticated ballistic missiles. In 2010, a high ranking Russian General working for Russia's military intelligence was murdered during a working visit in Syria. By 2011, Anglo-American-Jews
and their Turkish and Saudi Arabian allies had begun using the distraction brought upon by the so-called "Arab Spring" to begin sending Islamist terror groups into Syria. Their intent was to overthrow the secular
government in Damascus. They wanted President Bashar Assad out of power because he had brought Syria much closer to Russia and Iran and because he remained steadfastly behind Lebanon's Hezbollah. This upset Anglo-American-Jews, as well as Saudis. The ensuing unrest in the country then quickly transformed itself into an uncontrollable inferno. Hundreds of thousands have died and millions more have been injured and made homeless since.

At some point, the Islamist terror groups that were being used to topple the Syrian government were to also be used by Western powers as an pretext/excuse to invade Syria. In other words, Anglo-American-Jews and their allies in the Middle East had meticulously created a compelling narrative; namely that Syria was being overrun by very dangerous Islamist terror groups which had to be stopped.
This narrative, peddled to the Western public by propaganda organs such
as CNN and BBC, set the stage for Syria's final collapse and its eventual
invasion by "forces of freedom and democracy".Then, quite unexpectedly, Moscow essentially stole the narrative Western powers had painstakingly crafted in Syria, by militarily intervening to save the embattled government in Damascus from an inevitable collapse, the repercussions of which would have been nothing-less-than catastrophic for the country's majority Alawite, Christian and moderate /secular
Sunni populations. For historical context, please revisit my previous blog commentaries about the war in
Syria -

Going forward, it seems that Israel and Turkey will be the wild cards in the Syrian battlefield. Their actions
will therefore be pivotal. Due to its Kurdish
concerns, Ankara will want a final say in how Syria will look after the
war ends. Moreover, Ankara will want leverage over Iraqi Kurds. Due to
its Iranian concerns, Israel will want to see Iranians (and Hezbollah)
out of Syria as well as Lebanon. Therefore, from Moscow's and
Washington's perspective, Turkish and Israeli actions with regards to
Syria will remain problematic. Turkish and Israeli belligerence and
nonconformity is already being felt in Moscow and Washington. This,
coupled with the heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington, will
continue causing problems for some time to come. Syria has thus become the
manifestation of the proverbial Gordian Knot. I do not see another
hotpot in the world, including North Korea, that is as complicated or as dangerous as Syria. Consequently,
while we may be in the final chapter of the Syrian tragedy, the story of
Syria's tragedy is far from being completed.

Nevertheless, Syria, as we knew it, is dead. A new nation, or nations, is to eventually emerge from its ashes. All of the invested powers now on the ground in Syria are currently maneuvering for the best possible seat in the new house. In other words, the current phase of fighting is about who will get what after the final bomb explodes. It's essentially about the spoils of war. Regarding who will get what: Although much of Syria is now back under the control of the Russian and Iranian backed government in Damascus, the country's Kurdish populated regions in the north, areas adjacent the border with Jordan and territories east of the Euphrates River, where Islamist forces are now concentrated, seems to be where Anglo-American-Jews are claiming as their area of interest -

The "Syrian side of the Syria-Iraq border northeast of Deir Ezzor province" where the director general of Iraq’s intelligence and counter-terrorism office claims the seriously wounded ISIL/ISIS (Islamic State) leader is hiding is exactly where U.S. troops are in control today. It is now very obvious that Western powers will be laying claim for Syrian territories east of the Euphrates River. As we saw recently when pro-Syrian forces, including many Russian mercenaries, tried to advance in the region but were repelled by American air power, Western forces stationed in eastern Syria will not allow any Syrian or pro-Syrian forces to establish a foothold east of the Euphrates River. This will be the region in Syria where Anglo-American-Jews will allow the existence of Islamist militant groups. Eastern Syria will basically be the staging area for terrorist operations.

This illegal American military presence in Syria serves a number of geostrategic roles. For one, it ensures that Syria will remain weak and fragmented. It acts as a geostrategic counterbalance, ensuring that Russians and Iranians do not get too powerful in Syria. With regards to Iran, the American military presence in eastern Syria also acts as a deterrence to the formation of the much feared Iranian "Arc". Moreover, the American military presence in eastern Syria secures control over vital energy transportation routes and oil fields; helps apply steady pressure on a belligerent Ankara; ensures that Islamist militants such as Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front and ISIS, or whatever else they are currently preparing in secret training bases in Syria and Jordan, remain a viable factor on the ground. Washington was never serious about fighting Al-Qaeda or ISIS, the ones we are told are attacking Western countries. The American military presence in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan is specifically designed to keep Anglo-American-Jews in the region's geopolitical game. American forces will therefore continue acting as protectors of Islamic terror groups throughout the region to ensure an excuse for their military interventions. That American troops are directly aiding and abetting Islamist terror groups is now a well established fact, and a fact that more-and-more people around the world, including Americans, are beginning to better understand -

Note: A Russian warplane was for the first time shot-down by militants over rebel held territory in Syria. Russian sources are stating that the MANPAD used in the downing of the Russian warplane was brought into the country from an undisclosed neighboring country just several days prior to the incident; the implication being that it was a deliberate act ordered from somewhere outside the country. Coming on the heals of its recent military successes in Syria, the act was perhaps meant to be a punishing message to Moscow. The pilot of the Su-25 managed to parachute to the ground, but after gunfight with Islamic militants he heroically killed himself to avoid capture. A similar act of heroism took place two years ago, when a Russian special forces operative called an air strike on himself to avoid being captured by militants. Both warriors have since been awarded the highest military honor in Russia. Also who can forget the incident two years ago when Turkish warplanes ambushed a Russian warplane over the Syrian-Turkish border. Two pilots from that warplane had parachuted to safety. One was rescued by a joint Russian-Syrian-Iranian special forces operation, the other however was brutally murdered by Turkish-backed Islamic militants.The brutality of these incidents vividly remind us that the most shocking aspect of the Syrian tragedy has been the horrible crimes committed by Wahhabist and Salafistterrorist groups. Due
to the proliferation of digital cameras and smartphones in recent
years, the historic tragedy in Syria has unfortunately become the most widely recorded in history of war. Consequently, the global public has been made to face the unspeakable horrors taking place up-close; and sometimes in real time. The atrocities that Islamic terror groups were deliberately committing, recording and broadcasting via the worldwide web, such as gruesome public executions, was essentially designed to be as psychological warfare. It was indeed an effective method of shock and awe. The acts of brutality were meant to demoralize their opponents by striking fear into their hearts and minds. The acts were also meant to shock the global community at large. The brutality of Islamic terror groups has become a phenomenon during the past twenty somewhat years. The years since September 11, 2001 have in particular been characterized by a dramatic upsurge in public displays of brutality and terrorism around the world. The same time period has also seen the constant dissemination of frightening information about various terror groups that often times seem to form out of thin air. All in all, the Americans cattle has been convinced that such terror groups are coming after Americans because "they hate the American way of life". Not a single day goes by today without hearing about the horrors of Islamic terrorism and the danger it poses to the American/Western way of life. It's all by design -

If
a generation ago people around the world were terrified of the prospects of a nuclear war,
today it is Islamic terrorism. Terrorism today is by-far the single most frightening factor for many peoples around the
world -so much so that terrorism has turned the American people in particular into slaves of Zionists, Western war planners and the military industrial complex.Needless to say, the topic of terrorism, Islamic terrorism in particular, is one of the most important subjects of our time. It is a terrible scourge that will be written about for many generations to come. That is why in my opinion this topic is one of the most important subject matter of our day. It should therefore be understood well.

The disturbing fact that Anglo-American-Jews have been encouraging and at times directly supporting Islamic terror groups around the world through their intelligence services as well as their proxies in nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey and Pakistan is something that cannot be emphasized enough to the public. The disturbing fact that Western intelligence services are behind those groups or individuals that at times attack Western nations is something that cannot be overstated to the public.

I therefore want my current blog commentary to take another, more extensive look at the subject of Islamic terrorism and its intimate ties to Western intelligence. To help the reader better understand the subject matter, I have compiled a large number of news articles and analytical reports, many of them produced by Western sources, concerning Islamic terrorism and its unmistakable ties to Western powers. Staying true to this blog's traditional practice, I have featured these articles as a supplement to my blog commentary. Please note that the featured articles are a mere sampling, for there are literally thousands of them. I also need to point out that some of these articles are whitewash/coverup attempts by mainstream presstitues working for the deep state. I'm confident that the reader here will quickly figure out which one's I'm referring to. I therefore suggest reading these articles in between the lines. Nevertheless, even without my commentary, these articles, and the many more that exists throughout Cyberia, speak for themselves; and they tell us one thing: Western powers are behind all major Islamic terrorism incidents in the world today.

A closer look at Western intelligence and Islamic terrorism

For centuries it has been recognized by peoples around the world that "all warfare is based on deception". It is true that deception is one of the best ways to defeat an enemy. Less recognized however is the following: The leadership of a country, especially one that espouses democratic values, must deceive not only its enemy but also its citizenry. In other words, a dictatorship can simply force its subjects to war. An ostensibly democratic system on the other hand has to fool its subjects into wanting a war. This is the smart way. Because history has taught us that when a government - be it a kingdom, a dictatorship or a democracy - wages war without the willing and enthusiastic support of its subjects, it can be a recipe for defeat. So, before imperial officials begin waging wars overseas, they first wage psychological war or psychological operations (psy-ops) on their populations.In modern times, waging war by deception has become an exact science and a highly refined art form. High level state officials continue seeking more-and-more sophisticated ways to make their subjects want to fight enemies both real and imagined. Depending on what civilization or culture a particular nation or a group of people find themselves in - religion, nationalism, tribalism or psychological conditions such as fear - are the most effective tools for making a people desire war. And the catalyst upon which the aforementioned tools of coercion travel upon is a nation's education system, news agencies, radio programming, television programming and cinema and increasingly, the internet. These are the tools politicians use to prepare their citizenry for war against their global opponents/competitors.

For the elite of any ambitious political entity, having an enemy is very important because it helps governing bodies focus resources and rally the citizenry. After all, if all's well and the country is not threatened, how would they excuse the expenditure of a nation's fortune on arms procurement or military conquests of countries around the world? How would they explain the need to build and maintain hundreds of military bases around the world? How would they explain why troops have to kill and be killed in remote lands that Americans cannot even locate on a map let alone understand why they are fighting? If there was no imminent threat to the nation how would they, the leadership, question the citizenry's patriotism and stifle dissent? Without a very imminent threat facing the nation how would they explain tampering with the nation's political traditions and laws? None of what I am saying here is a new revelation. Nation-states have long recognized the need for external enemies to focus their subject's attention on, and to exploit as a pretext for war -

Through the persistent dissemination of deceptive news reporting, and at times false flag operations, they create crisis which they then exploit to create a war frenzy and curb privacy laws. They never let a serious (if fabricated) crisis go to waste. This is nothing new. This has in fact been the American way for war for a very long time now. With the notable exception of the Korean war, all of the wars the United States has fought in the past one hundred-plus years - Spanish-American war, First World War, Second World War, Vietnam, Granada, Panama, Iraq war 1, Serbia, Iraq war 2, Afghanistan, Syria - have been imperial wars that were started through lies and deception. Enemies were formed around the world. A crisis was thereafter created to strike fear into the people's hearts. The people's fear was then exploited. Imperials wars are then fought with the full support of the public. The nation's treasury is thus squandered and imperial objective are met (and sometimes not). All in all, it's the modern art of Western warfare, and lies, deception, fear-mongering and psychological operations are some of its primary components.

But
there is still another important equation to solve. Creating a war
frenzy in society by first creating a crisis and then using the crisis
to exploit the people's fear is one thing. But the enemy in question has
to still be defeated. So, the best way to solve this particular problem is to create your enemy yourself. These political philosophies lies at the very root of the Washington's phony "war on terrorism".Having an enemy or two on the global stage is very important for an ambitious political system seeking imperial glory and spoils of war. But Washington faced a problem in this regard some twenty-five years ago. The problem was that after the collapse of
the Soviet Union, the Anglo-American-Jewish political order stood alone at the top of the global food chain. The world was essentially theirs for the taking. But this was the problem: To take the prize hanging in front of them, they needed a persistently large military presence around the world and the large sums of money to finance it. But they did not have
any serious enemies at the gate to scare the Western public into going along with their very long-term, overly ambitious and costly agenda. Yes, after Saddam Hussein was for the second time (the first time being the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s) stupid enough to be goaded into a war he could not win in the early 1990s, Western powers used the historic opportunity to send large numbers of forces into the Middle East.

But, the problem was that Saddam Hussein simply did not scare the American people enough to give Washingtonians the carte blanche to expand America's military role in the region, which was eagerly being sought after the Soviet collapse.

In short, Western war planners needed a long-term scary threat to use as an excuse to expand their military presence in the Middle East and elsewhere and of course the funding with which to realize it all. Therefore, in the absence of serious enemies during the early post-Soviet period in the 1990s, and with a strong desire to deploy Western forces into the strategic theaters of operation around the world under the guise of "Rebuilding America's Defenses", what did Washington do? Well, it created for itself a brand new enemy and that enemy was political Islam, and it proved to be a rather easy animal to manipulate and exploit. Let's also recognize that the best enemy one can have is the one that you create yourself. Let's also recognize that Western collaboration with Muslim powers (e.g. Ottoman Empire and Saudi Arabia) and Islamic movements (Muslim Brotherhood) go back a very long time. But due to this blog commentary's limited scope I will primarily address Western ties to radical Islam starting from the 1980s, for that is when the collaboration in question flourished and began taking increasingly violent forms.

Political Islam - with its immense size and dispersion, its traditional ties to the Western world and its inherent radicalism and extremism - became a very effective and easily controlled tool at Western disposal essentially because the two power centers of Islam - Saudi Arabia and Pakistan - have been closely allied to Western powers for a very long time. The already established ties between Western powers, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had deepened further in the 1980s during the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Therefore, going as far back as the 1980s, Western intelligence began gaining valuable hands-on experience in recruiting Islamic radicals from around the world and using them in various theaters of operation. Afghanistan of the 1980s was therefore where Islamic terrorism as we know it today and its ties to Western powers was born. This was how Al Qaeda, the first Islamic bogeyman to frighten Western public with, came into being. The following by Michel Chosudovsky is a very comprehensive look at Al-Qaeda and Washington's phony "war on terrorism" -

I suspect Western powers have been somewhat surprised with the relative easy they have been able to exploit radical Islam for so long. But how/why has it been so easy? Well,I am not revealing a great secret when I say Muslim countries, especially those in the Middle East, are very backward societies. Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, there is throughout the Islamic world a massive surplus of young adults who are unemployed, uneducated, impoverished, desperate, increasingly radicalized and in many cases mentally ill males and females. Moreover, the world of Islam today is deeply divided and fragmented long ethic and religious lines. There are factions within factions, division within divisions, and the hate and fear they have towards each other is more than the hate or fear they have towards Christian or Jews. Shiites and Sunnis, for example, reserve more hostility and disdain towards each other than they do towards Christians or Jews. In short: The Sunni Muslim world, the corrupt leaders of which are closely tied to Western powers, is vulnerable and ripe for manipulation and exploitation.All it would take is for an outside power to step in with some money and some Islamic terminology and begin recruiting foot soldiers for Allah, of course in conjunction with local leadership.

And that is exactly what Anglo-American-Jews have done in recent decades with great success.Senior
policymakers in the West have long recognized the potential for political exploitation that lay in Muslim nations around the world -

Reading between the lines of what senior policymakers like Zbigniew Brzezinski have to say, it becomes increasingly clear that Western powers have long recognized that there exists the potential to exploit the "downtrodden" around the world and guide them towards political goals that serve the Western world's imperial agenda. Western policymakers have long understood that there are today tens-of-millions of young, poor, restless, unemployed and illiterate people around the world, and they are all yearning for some kind of change. The same is especially true about the Muslim world. Muslim street wants change. The change they are seeking however is fundamentally quite different from the change for example that poor south Americans are seeking.Due to Western military interventions and the proliferation of Saudi Arabian and Pakistani funded Madrases around the world in recent decades, the change young Muslims are typically seeking today is rooted in Islamic radicalism and extremism. These Islamic schools are where radicalism is disseminated and where intelligence agencies do their harvesting. Consequently, headed by Saudi Arabia, political Islam today is a major force in the world.Simply put: If the leadership of a nation wants its subjects to fight in faraway lands for causes they does not even fully understand, there are ways. If the leadership of a nation wants to create a terrorist force, there are ways for that as well. There are many millions of radicalized Muslims today yearning for Jihad. They are yearning to fight for what they have been conditioned by their societies and governments to believe are sacred Islamic causes in faraway places such as Chechnya, Dagestan, Serbia, Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Artsakh, etc. These masses are essentially the dormant forces that intelligence agencies are in a position to manipulate. These masses are essentially the cannon fodder Western powers in conjunction with Saudi Arabian and Pakistani intelligence have been exploiting since the early 1980s. And, as already stated, recruiting people to carry-out acts of terrorism is easy, as the following quote from a book written by a former Soviet officer confesses -

The above excerpt is about the Soviet Union's exploitation of radical movements around the world. However, in today's political climate, the information provided by this author can go a long way to helping the reader better understand how any intelligence service operates in general. Obviously, the author of the book had a very clear anti-Russian/anti-Soviet political agenda. We must however bare in mind that the dark nature of intelligence services is in no way exclusive to Russia or the Soviet Union. Western powers, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan in fact excel at procuring terror groups. Speaking of procurement, please note the following Al Jazaeera interview with a former FBI agent -

We learn from the FBI agent that ISIS came into being under American supervision. Now, with all the above in mind, please take into close consideration the following words spoken by a veteran CIA agent, Graham Fuller -

We have seen four very revealing comments by four government insiders. Their words should be carefully pondered as they are interrelated. When it comes to the topic of Islamic terrorism, their words are self-evident. The following is more-or-less what we learn from these men: There is today virtually a limitless supply of human resources (i.e. patsies) around the world to manipulate and exploit. Recruiting individuals or groups of people to carry out acts of terrorism is quite easy. Islamist militant groups are at times formed under American supervision. Finally, and more importantly, we learn that Islamic terrorism today is being deliberately guided and used against the enemies of the West. In other words, Islamic terrorism is being nurtured by Western powers as a force to used against Russia, Iran, China and Arab nationalism -

The aforementioned is why main targets of radical Islam in recent years have not been the United States or Israel but been Russia, Iran and various secular and/or nationalistic governments in the Middle East and north Africa. This is why on the battlefields of the Balkans, the Caucasus, Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, we see Western forces and Islamist militants more-or-less operating on the same side. There is now just too much evidence - circumstantial, demonstrative and direct - pointing to an active collaboration between Western intelligence and Islamic terror groups in the Middle East and elsewhere. Where there is a radical Islamic movement, chances are high that there is also Western collusion with Islamists, at least to some degree. Very often, the collusion between Western powers and Islamists takes place via elements within the Western intelligence community and allied nations that harbor Islamist movements, primarily Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

We see this collaboration and collusion between Western powers and radical Islamist militants with the easy in which such militants freely travel from one hot spot to another via countries allied to Western powers. One day we are told a certain terror group is operating in Afghanistan, then we are told they moved to Iraq. One day we are told a terror group is operating in Pakistan, then we are told they are in Yemen. One day we are told a terror group is operating in Libya, they we are told they are fighting in Syria. They are in one place one day and in another place the next day. The same can be said about arms, some of which are modern variants, that show up in terrorist hands in various war zones. Someone is making these large movements of men and arms possible. Someone is funding these operations.

Those who are capable of funding and making such movements possible are regional powers allied to the West - i.e. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey and Israel - and of course Western powers themselves. Western intelligence (American, British and French in particular) and Israel's Mossad are no doubt heavily involved with facilitating the movements of militants and arms into various war zones. Incidentally, some of the same players and methods are also involved in bringing narcotics from Central Asia into Europe and elsewhere. After all, Washington's favorite resource in Afghanistan is opium. And the CIA is still the world's number one narcotics trafficker. War zones like Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and allied nations like Columbia, Albania and Pakistan are some of the main transfer points. Nevertheless, the active collaboration between Western powers and Islamist groups have only deepened in recent times. Until recently, little was know about this collaboration. It was all speculation by a handful of observers and "conspiracy theorists". Today however there is an overwhelming body of evidence documenting Western collusion with Islamic terror groups around the world. As a result, an increasing number of Westerners, including public officials in the United States, are beginning to address this matter -

There is now overwhelming evidence - circumstantial, demonstrative and direct - that point to Western collaboration and collusion with Islamic terrorists. There is a growing body of evidence showing that Western intelligence services have been involved in the creation of terror organizations like Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Islamic radicalism is a volatile yet a powerful tool Western powers have been utilizing against rivals such as Russia, Iran, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Serbia and China for many decades. In more recent years, Western powers have also used the existence of Islamic militancy as a convincing pretext for illegal military interventions in countries such as Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria - as well as a justification for the expenditure of trillions of dollars that such interventions require. The following political cartoon does a good job of summarizing the methods I have outlined above -

The process of destruction pictured above is more-or-less what has taken place in places around the world - all in the name of securing energy transit route and oil fields; curbing Iranian and Russian influence in the region; and of course extending the life of artificially created nations such as Israel and Saudi Arabia. Having long ago frightened the Western public into compliance with periodic false flag attacks on Western soil, the presence of Islamist terror groups in various theaters of operation is now the main excuse or pretext Western imperialist powers use to illegally intervene in targeted countries. Such terrorist organizations are also used to scare the Western public from time-to-time, essentially to keep them pro military "defense" expenditures. In short: It's an imperial business based on deception, lies and of course the power of nightmares -

The existence of Islamic terror organizations in certain strategic regions of the world are used as a pretext to meddle, invade, bomb, kill, conquer and exploit. Similar to how the region's Crusader and Mongol invasions some one thousand years ago laid waste to much of the Middle East, Western powers have turned much of the Middle East today into a desolate wasteland once again. The Middle East is suffering another historic low point from which it will not recover from for generations to come. Similar to how they have turned Russia into the new enemy to supposedly protect Europe from (as they pursue their self-serving imperial agenda of curbing Russian influence in continental Europe), violent Islamist organizations such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS have been turned into the new enemy to supposedly protect the entire world from.

Islamist terror groups are essentially the Islamic military wing of the Western imperial war machine

From the perspective of Washingtonian reptiles, Russophobes in eastern Europe and Iranophobic Wahhabists/Salafists in the Middle East, essentially serve the exact same geostrategic purpose. Therefore, Ukrainian racists and Islamic terrorists are essential elements in the imperial calculus. Such assets help Western powers in their effort to reconfigure and redraw what they see as outdated borders, curb Russian and Iranian expansion and of course secure Anglo-American-Jewish primacy in the twenty first century.

Some time in the early 1980s, Western powers began understanding, and appreciating, the awesome potential that lay dormant in the still medieval world of Sunni Islam. Consequently, for about forty years now, "Al Qaeda" and "ISIS" type paramilitary forces have been acting as the Islamic military wing of the Western war machine around the world. For about forty years now, Western powers have been using their close ties in places such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Pakistan and Turkey to procure Islamic terror cells, which they have then exploited for use against for the most part Russian and Iranian interests. As such, from the Balkans to China, from the Caucasus to the Maghreb, Sunni Islamic extremists have been advancing one Anglo-American-Jewish interest after another. It's all well documented. The following series of pictures tell the story of how Western intelligence began conspiring with Islamic radicals over thirty years ago and how it continues to this day -

As many of us know now, the Islamic terror group known as Al Qaeda was the offshoot of the above noted "gentlemen" seen seated with President Reagan in the White House. Then, we have this 1993 profile about Osama Bin Laden -

Throughout the 1990s, American officials took under their arms other groups of Islamic terrorists, this time in the Balkans. US envoy Richard Holbrooke seen below sitting next to a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) militant. The KLA was designated as a terrorist organization before US officials took them off the terrorist list in 1998 -

And the following two pictures show us where we are today: Here we see Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican
Senator John McCain meeting with Islamic extremists in Libya and an undisclosed
location somewhere in Syria, Jordan or Turkey -

Ever since the CIA made a military pact with Islamist radicals against the Soviet Union, the factor of militant Islam has been an important component of Western policy formulations throughout Eurasia. Seeing how successful they were against the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980s, Western powers have been utilizing Islamic extremists like Al-Qaeda in various theaters of operation around the world with increasing frequency in recent years. For several decades now Wahhabist and Salafist extremist groups have been acting as the Islamic military wing of the Anglo-American-Zionist war machine in various hot spots around the world. From the Caucasus to north Africa, from the Balkans to Central Asia, Islamic hordes have been advancing one Western interest after another.

By
the early 1990s, the Soviet Union had collapsed. There was no longer a
serious geopolitical threat facing the West. With the Soviets relegated to the
pages of history, the West got ambitious. A very ambitious blue print for global domination
was devised -

With the Soviet Union gone, Western powers were forced to recreate Al
-Qaeda as the new global monster Western society had to go to war
against. However, when the fright factor from Al-Qaeda began diminishing, they had to create a new bogeyman. As the face of 9/11 changed, a new frightening
enemy was needed. They therefore killed the narrative they had wrapped Al-Qaeda in by staging the assassination of a person we were told was Osama Bin Laden. Enter ISIS. ISIS has in recent years been playing the strategic role once relegated to Al-Qaeda. As such, Islamic terror groups have been playing a very important role in Western strategy for decades. Their role has only increased in importance in recent years with the rise of Russian and Iranian power and influence in the Middle East. So,
naturally, when needed, the forces of "freedom and democracy" will
provide propaganda as well as military assistance to Islamic terror groups. We have seen this
happen in Syria, in Iraq, in Libya and of course in Serbia -

Russia and Iran are not the only targets of Western-backed Islamic radicalism. Some Islamic movements that are nurtured by the West are held in reserve to be used against targets such as Egypt, Turkey and China -

If one day the Islamic/Turkic agenda gains traction inside China as well, you can bet the said project will have been masterminded and put into action right from inside Washington.

Uncle Sam has been the major force behind Sunni Islam around the world. Under the guise of the "Arab Spring", a
Western-backed Islamist uprising was tried in Tunisia and Egypt.
These however failed. A similar thing was done more recently in Turkey. It also failed. They will keep trying. Islamic radicalism is a powerful tool that will not be abandoned by Western powers anytime soon. I
need to add something important here: Islamists that we sometimes hear about getting
assassinated or blown-up by American drones are more-or-less those
that refuse to play Washington's game. In other words, Islamist militants that
get targeted by Washington and its allies are either splinter groups,
groups that have sprung-up spontaneously and/or groups that are
supported by rival political interests. Therefore, next time we hear about an
Islamic militant getting killed (and if it's not fake news) let's be rest assured that he or she was either a rouge
player, a double agent or one that was working for an opposing force. In other words, he or she did not serve Western interests.

Unbeknownst to the general public, many Islamist militants today, like the leader of ISIS Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (who may have been killed or seriously wounded by a Russian air strike), were once held captive in various American detention centers. Unbeknownst to the general public, many of these Islamist militants have returned to the battlefield to become leaders of various militant groups in different theaters of operation. Also unbeknownst to the general public is that some of the ISIS leadership were in fact members of the secular Bathist party in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was still in power. The conventional reasoning (i.e. what has been pushed by Western propaganda organs) suggests that while they were captives in American prison camps these former Bathists were somehow radicalized. The following is an Al Jazaeera interview with a former FBI agent that addresses this matter -

Essentially, Sunni Arab Bathists and radical Islamists - the "oil and fire" - as Ali Soufan claims got to know each other under American supervision. As such, a hybrid militant force, which would later become variably known as ISIL, ISIS, Daesh and Islamic State, came into being while within American run detention camps. ISIS was created to defeat Bashar Assad's government and stop the unintended
Iranification of Iraq (which was Washington's historic blunder in Iraq). Under the cover of President Obama's military pullout from Iraq, these militants were quietly released into various theaters of operation. And the rest is history.Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's story is not unique at all. Many Islamic militants, like Osama Bin Laden and Omar al-Shishani, have had direct ties to Western intelligence. Actually, even Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini had extensive contacts with American intelligence. Throughout the 20th century even many secular Arab leaders (i.e. Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Hosni Mubarak, King Hussein and his son King Abdullah) had, and in the case of King Abdullah, continue to have ties to Western intelligence.Regarding how ISIS was created in American prisoner camps: Washingtonians claim it was all a result of political indecisiveness and lack of oversight, a major mistake on their part that they supposedly regret to this day. In an effort to explain the release of Islamic militants back into society, government controlled mainstream news organizations and other voices of the political establishment in the West often tries to whitewash such events by passing them off as government "incompetence" or a "mistake". Pleading ignorance has often been one of Uncle Sam's best defenses. Needless to say, what Washingtonian reptiles claim and what reality suggests are two, often very different things. Basing my opinion upon years of observation as well as what can be deduced from reports that periodically appear in the Western news press, the following is most probably how the procurement process in question works:

ISIS, which as we know is a fusion of Bathists and Islamists, was created by Western (and most likely Saudi Arabian and Israeli) intelligence agencies inside American run prison camps. They were then let loose in Syria and Iraq to essentially curb Russia's and Iran's growing clout in the two countries. S0, if Western intelligence officials assess that a captive under their
control can be useful for any one of their agendas around the world,
they will set him or her free regardless of whether or not he or she
harbors hostility towards Westerners. Like I have said before, for the geostrategic value that such militants bring to the table, they are willing to risk periodic blowback.When insurgents, radicals or militants in places like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan are placed into custody by US forces they get closely evaluated by military interrogators, psychiatrists and intelligence experts. Sometimes, such captives are assessed to be potentially useful to an agenda in a certain theater of operation. These captives are slowly prepared to serve that agenda. When the time is right they get released and are transported to their target areas. Some of these released captives, especially the most radical ones among them, tend to have deep rooted psychological problems and/or low intelligence. They may therefore not even fully understand the greater purpose of their release or existence. Others however, like the more educated or intelligent ones among them, willingly cooperate with their Western captors. What is their motivation? Most probably to advance the cause of Sunni Islam against Russian and Iranian influence in the Middle East and Central Asia - even if it means collaborating with Western powers. This
is how Washington's Islamic allies come handy. Needless to say, Pakistani, Saudi Arabian, Jordanian, Qatari
or Turkish support in helping Western intelligence agencies prepare
such militants is fundamentally important.

The infamous Guantanamo Bay prison facility has had a revolving door and has long been suspected of being more than what meets the eye. Prisoner
camps like "Gitmo" should very well have been shut-down a very long time ago but not because
they treated prisoner inhumanely or outside of due process - but because
such detainment camps have been ideal environments to covertly train
terrorists. In fact, it is in the public record that "double agents" are being prepared there.

However, describing what they are doing in Guantanamo Bay as recruiting "double agents" is part of their deception. The infamous facility in question is where Western officials, most probably in conjunction with Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies, most probably prepared their terrorists. It's their homegrown terrorists. There are in fact many reported cases of Islamic militants held captive within U.S. run prison facilities for many years suddenly being released without much of an explanation from Washington. Several such reports appear in this blog's articles section below.Many of these individuals go on to carryout operations in places like Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. They are sometimes joined by Western agents, usually CIA or special forces types. Westerners among Islamic extremist groups actually seem to be doing a significant amount of the logistical work that goes behind planning or executing combat or terror operations. Sometimes their activities, or their deaths, make it into mainstream news and are quickly covered up by the mainstream press. Sometimes, Western militaries even provide direct assistance to such Islamist militants. These also sometimes make it into mainstream news, which are then needless to say explained away by mainstream news agencies and government officials as mistakes and errors. In any case, that Western powers, in conjunction with allied governments in the region, are directly and indirectly assisting Islamist radicals in various theaters of war operations is a foregone conclusion. The following is a very poignant comment made by a Libyan official before Mummar Qadaffi was overthrown and murdered by Western backed and Al-Qaeda led insurgents in Libya -

Moreover, as we saw on September 11, 2001, sometimes elements deep within Western intelligence agencies (which in my opinion can also be described as the deep state) utilizes their contacts in the Middle East to orchestrate attacks inside Western nations.When such attacks occur they are popularly known as "false flag" operations. In recent years, we
have seen smaller but more frequent terrorist attacks in the United States as well as in France, Germany, Spain, Belgium and
Britain. There are clear signs that many of these attacks, if not every single one of them, are false
flag operations carried out by elements within the Western and/or
Israeli intelligence agencies. There are also strong indicators that at least some of the televised Islamic bogeymen are actually Western/Israeli intelligence agents, and that some of their televised atrocities are in fact staged.The following are two American-Jews - Adam Gadahn (aka Adam Pearlman) and Yousef Al-Khattab - who supposedly
converted to Islam and became outspoken advocates of "Al-Qaeda" -

There is no doubt that false flag attacks are being carried-out. The evidence for this mostly circumstantial and indirect but it's overwhelming nevertheless. We therefore see what they are doing. However, we can only speculate as to why they are doing it. As to the question of why it's being done, no one who is not connected to what's known as deep state would be able to answer that question in an unequivocally way. We the sheeple can only look at the bigger picture, study the available evidence and then speculate/theorize. With that said, in my speculation, such operations are meant to serve some long-term political purpose the details of which is yet unknown to the general public. Such terrorist operations also act as a weapon of psychological warfare. In other words, false flag attacks may be carried-out in Western nations to advance a particular political goal (guide political policy towards a certain direction) and keep the Western sheeple frightened and therefore politically compliant.

Moreover, false flags may be carried-out to force the hand of nonconforming or overly complacent Western politicians. It is important therefore to point out that the civilian leadership of a Western nation that is targeted by a false flag attack may or may not have any knowledge of who/what is truly behind such attacks. After all, we know that at least in the United States, president don't really rule the country, it is special interests that do.

Allow me to explain: After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the civilian leadership of the United States well as the country's citizenry were enraged and seeking revenge. The leadership therefore had no choice but to react strongly to the horrendous attack, and the American citizenry was ready to accept all the costs associated with it. Washington's answer to the September 11, 2001 attacks was the infamous "war on terror", which was basically an open-endedagenda devised by special interests. So, when President Bush II returned to his office in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, he already had on his desk his directives for war. The so-called war on terror essentially envisioned unilateral action and military interventions around the world, at the cost of trillions of U.S. Dollars, billions of which went to connected corporations such as Halliburton. It's not only Anglo-American interests that are benefiting politically from terror attacks. Jews and Israelis eagerly seek to exploit any attacks in Western countries that are carried-out by Muslims -

Nevertheless, I would like to reiterate once more: A nation's leadership, including its presidents or prime ministers, may not know who or what is really behind terrorist attacks that take place in their country. All the leadership may know is that a terrible attack has taken place and that they simply have to react in some forceful way. The leadership also sees that there are a number of special interests (i.e. influential think tanks like CFR, powerful lobbing groups like AIPAC and old institutions like the military industrial complex) ready and eager to take advantage of the situation. As noted above, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were planned long before the attack on 9/11. Please see the following to put such special interests in Washington and their war agenda into a proper context -

As the reader can see, as soon as the Soviet Union was no longer a geopolitical factor in the world, Western policymakers began drawing-up ambitious plans which were essentially a blueprint for global conquest. Such plans however could only be realized if Western countries were attacked. This is where terrorism like what occurred on the morning of September 11, 2001 plays a big role. And this brings up the question of blowback and collateral damage.As we saw with the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the CIA-representative in Benghazi, Libya some several years ago, dealing with Islamic radicals is not always a neat job nor is it very predictable. Precisely due to its inherent volatility, dealing with Islamic radicals can sometimes backfire and there is a price to be paid. Moreover, as we saw with the attacks of September 11, 2001 revealed, the deep state in the Western world is willing to suffer collateral damage in order to advance its political agenda. Incidentally, at the time when CIA operative Ambassador Stevens was killed in Benghazi, he was busy funneling arms and Jihadi militants into Syria -

So, as we can we, sometimes militants inside Western-backed Islamic terror networks get out of control or are recruited by rival interests and there is a price to pay. The seven CIA officials and Ambassador Stevens' deaths was the price that had to be paid. But, as I have said on numerous previous occasions, for those in the deep state pulling the stings of government in the American empire, a few American lives lost or some property damaged from time-to-time is a price well worth paying for political value Western ties to Islamic extremists bring to the geopolitical table.For
senior policymakers in Washington, the geostrategic benefits brought
upon by their support of such militants in certain areas of the world
far outweighs the inherent risks involved with dealing with Al-Qaeda or
Islamic State type movements. In the absence of true ideological
movements in the world, radical Islam has been the spark to get things
done around the world. Therefore,
as far as Washingtonians are concerned, what's the big deal if some
Americans get blown to bits once in a while - as long as the American
empire remains a global hegemon?! As far as Washingtonians are
concerned, what's the big deal if America is made to suffer some
real-estate damage once in a while - if such a thing can be cleverly
exploited towards long-term geostrategic agendas?! Aren't the terrible
events of September 11, 2001 continuing to be used as a powerful excuse
to advance a global agenda, which is essentially to remake the world in Washington's
image... and of course curb civil rights in the United States and squander or steal trillions of dollars in
the process?! Didn't Islamic State serve also this purpose, that is until Russia changed the equation by defeating them?

In a nutshell: They create a rabid animal to use against their enemies. Sometimes the rabid animal is used to carry-out false flag attacks in Western countries, which they then exploit to advance a political agenda. Once in a while, the rabid animal gets out of control and bites the hand that feeds it. In other words, there is blowback. At the end of the day, it's expected. It's a natural part of the game. When they occur, false flags and blowbacks are politically beneficial for Western powers as well as Israel. In fact, even blowback is ok because when such thing does occur it has
an inherent value ingrained within it (i.e. psy-ops) that can also be
exploited for even further political gain. In other words, to scare the citizenry.Speaking
of psy-ops, CIA is not the only one involved in trying to scare the
Western public. Israel's Mossad is just as active if at times not quite
effective.

I should also add this: Islamists that we sometimes hear about getting
assassinated or blown-up by American drones are more-or-less those
that refuse to play Washington's game. In other words, Islamist militants that
actually get targeted by Washington and its allies are either splinter groups,
groups that have sprung-up spontaneously and/or groups that are
supported by rival political interests. So, next time you hear about an
Islamist getting killed (and if it's not fake news) be rest assured that he or she was a rouge
player or a double agent that no longer served Western interests.

Anglo-American-Jews using Islamic terror groups as a scalpel to remake the Middle East

At the height of the Syrian war back in 2015 no one was expecting Russia to jump headlong into the Syrian inferno. But, it did. After a long aerial bombardment campaign by Russian forces, during which Iran began playing an increasing role on the ground, Islamic State was finally defeated. Is was not easy or quick but Moscow, in conjunction with Tehran, got the job done. From the West's perspective, Islamic State's life was not to end this way. Islamic State was created to carve a "Sunni Caliphate" in eastern Syria. This territory was to eventually fall under Western, Israeli, Saudi and Turkish oversight. As former Secretary of State John Kerry admitted, the
Russian intervention in Syria changed the entire equation. Moscow stole
the narrative Western powers had built for themselves. Islamic State's defeat in Syria or Iraq was not something Anglo-American-Jews were hoping. As a result, they are most probably redrawing their plans. They will do their best to hold on to at least some parts of Syria. They will most probably be forming new terror groups to help them get this done. Nevertheless, Islamic State's reign of terror in Syria is all but over. It's foot soldiers and leadership have been decimated under Russian bombings. The monstrous organization may finally put to rest by its creators and benefactors. But, let's take one more look at what Islamic State was designed to do.

The reader may recall that almost exactly two years before Moscow's military intervention in Syria, Russia had used political and military posturing to thwart an imminent Anglo-American-Jewish attack on Syria. The planned attack against Syria in September of 2013 was foiled at the last minute by Moscow. Washington's desire to attack Syria at the time was also met with an antiwar outcry
throughout the United States. With the attack thwarted, many at the time hoped that the war's end was finally in sight. However, it was
not to be - because Syria is simply too geostrategically important for Western powers and its allies. The objectives against Syria could therefore not be abandoned. Enter Islamic State. The emergence of Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh) in Syria quickly
solved Washington's problem. Within a year
after Washington's 2013 setback in Syria, Islamic State began making news headlines
around the world for its brutality.

Throughout the mainstream news press in the Western
world, the
hype
about Islamic State had become breathtakingly thorough. The global public was
bombarded by horrific images of Islamic State
atrocities on a persistent and consistent basis. Islamic State was presented as a threat not only to the Middle East but to the entire world. Therefore, Islamic State had to be fought. Western powers had to return to the Middle East to save it from monsters. And who
in public would dare speak against what was
perceived to be the West's valiant and humanitarian effort to fight
bloodthirsty barbarians that go around blowing up historic monuments,
beheading Westerners and genociding locals? Yet, unbeknownst to the public, at the very least, Islamic State could be stopped with just two phone calls to two close allies: One to Riyadh, one to Ankara. No such phone calls would be made. With the appearance of genocidal Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq, Uncle Sam and friends were presented with an opportunity to curb Iran's growing influence in Syria and Iraq, and get the Anglo-American cattle to support the re-invasion of Iraq and military aggression against Bashar Assad's government.

Similar to what Western forces had done in Baghdad
in 2003, Islamic State was meant to "shock and awe" its enemies on the ground
into retreating without resisting. Islamic State was meant to literally slaughter
its way into the people's consciousness and dwell in their darkest
nightmares. Islamic State was meant to turn the typical antiwar pacifist in the
Western world into a bloodthirsty warmonger.Basically,
the American people were shocked into compliance, and Western powers and
their allies were quite literally presented with a backdoor
reentry into Syria. It was in my opinion
an amazing feat of social engineering and mind control. And as the reader can see, the power of nightmares
continues to work wonders for Western warmongers essentially because Western
civilization today is devoid of ethics, spirituality, genuine
patriotism, critical thinking and rationale. Fear is what seems to work
best with Westerners: Scare the sheeple and then herd them towards where
you want them to go. It is deception and conflict management at its ugliest.

Consequently,
with the supposed need to fight Islamic State "headhunters" becoming a
desperate rallying cry in the Western world,
imperial warmongers in the Anglo-American-Jewish world conveniently
resumed beating the drums of war
against Syria once more; because in their convoluted and bloodstained
world: Defeating the Islamic State will require attacks against the Assad regime. Nevertheless, similar to what Al-Qaeda was
before its terror value for the American cattle expired several years
ago (which is why they put the no longer scary Osama Bin Laden scarecrow
to rest), groups like Islamic State became the new monster Western powers would save the world from.With
the overused and now ineffective name "Al-Qaeda" no longer able to keep
the American cattle awake at nights, new terror organizations like Islamic State, with their black
flags and severed heads, would be the convenient excuse to continue Western
crimes against humanity and keep the Middle East embroiled in bloody conflict for the foreseeable future.

Similar
to what was done with Al-Qaeda back in 2001, when the attacks of
September 11, 2001 was used to rally public support for long-term
military engagements around the world, Islamic State 's brutality was
meant to shock and awe and terrify the Anglo-American cattle
into actually wanting
their militaries to return to Iraq and carryout military operations
inside Syria.For Anglo-American-Jews and their friends, Islamic State provided the perfect
opportunity to undermine Iranian/Shiite influence by breaking up Syria and forcing the Shiite led Iraqi government to share power with Sunnis - as well as pull Western forces back in to the Middle East. They intended to use Islamic State to essentially dissect the Shiite Arc of influence in the region, and create a north-south Sunni axis between Turkey and Saudi Arabia.And in the case for Turks at the time, Islamic State was also a good opportunity to attack the Kurdish PKK.

Simply put: Islamic State was meant to give their so-called war on terror a whole new
life. Islamic State's sudden emergence in 2014
rejuvenated the Western agenda against Syria after it had suffered a
setback due to Russian meddling in 2013. Groups like Islamic State are
the tools Western powers are using today
to advance their imperial agenda not only in the Middle East but also in
Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Islamic terror groups are the
scalpel Washington and friends are using to remake the Middle East.Therefore, stopping Islamic State was not something Uncle Sam was particularly concerned about. Fighting Islamic State was never something Western powers were really interested in. And Western arms deliveries to Islamic State were not blunders or mishaps. Of course, they didn't
want the public to know any of this. But the truth kept leaking out. We are living after all in an age of technology and information. Which is why perhaps an increasing number of Western observers are now readily willing to admit that terror groups like Islamic State and Al-Qaeda can actually be useful tools against nations like Russia, China and Iran.

It must also be emphasized that besides
using Islamic militants to fight against Russians, Serbians, Chinese, Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis and Iranians in the
region, Western powers have also used Islamic movements in the Middle East to impede the growth of
secular, nationalistic leaders. The Zionist state
and the West have always feared independent, nationalistic pan-Arab leaders
in the very strategic and oil rich region. This is essentially the
reason why Mossadegh was overthrown in Iran; this is essentially the
reason why Nasser was killed in Egypt; this is essentially the reason
why Saddam was killed in Iraq; this is essentially the reason why
Qaddafi was killed in Libya; and this is essentially the reason why they
are currently trying to kill Assad in Syria.

Anglo-American-Jewish-Saudi interests have created
such a terrible situation on
the ground, particularly in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, that many around the
world have been calling for an immediate end to the bloodshed and the start of a new beginning, with new borders. The
violence brought to the region has been so disturbing and on such a
large scale that the Wall Street Journal, one of the main propaganda
outlets of the Western political/financial order is curiously asking - "would new borders mean less conflict in the Middle East?" The insinuation is obvious: New borders in the Middle East will
supposedly lessen future conflict. That is almost exactly what they were
suggesting a century ago as they were arbitrarily creating the same
borders they are currently attempting to destroy. The old
format so hastily put together by the British and the French no longer
seems to be serving its purpose. The redesigning of borders in the Middle East is more-or-less what they are seeking. This is why I say terror groups like Islamic State and Al-Qaeda have been used as surgical tools, scalpels, in this regard.

Therefore I ask my readers to disregard what they have heard on CNN and BBC
and simply realize that Anglo-American-Jews actually prefer dealing
with Islamic governments (Sunni Islamic governments in particular) rather than governments that are secular, independent and nationalistic. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise to anyone that
Washington has been "training" Islamic political parties in Egypt; it
should not come as a surprise to anyone that Washington has been
encouraging/funding Islamic militants to
carryout terrorist attacks in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Iran; it should not come as a surprise
to anyone that the main promoters of Islamic fundamentalism around the world, Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan, are some of Washington's closest allies; and it should not come as a surprise to anyone that Washington is actually encouraging the Islamization of Europe.

In a nutshell: What Anglo-American-Jews want to see in the Middle East
is smaller and weaker nations with redrawn borders, and nations with Sunni Islamic (i.e. backward) governments that are opposed to Russia and Iran. Careful monitoring of Western news reports and analysis makes this fact quite obvious -

From reading the above, what becomes quite obvious is that "Jihadists" in Syria are really not much of a concern for the Anglo-American-Jewish global order. It also becomes quite obvious that borders in the Middle East will be changing in the coming years. It is very
interesting that Professor Landis -
"the top Syria scholar in the US" - suggested at the time that Washington wanted
Turkey to act as the guarantor of the new Sunni state being formed in
Syria by having Ankara put in place there a "good government" so that
the United States can thereafter "pour money into [its] development". In any case, how drastic the changes and how cruel the bloodshed will be as a result will remain to be seen. I would like to point out here that Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Iran are not their only targets and their agenda to remake the Middle East is not new. A sinister plan for the entire region was first hatched three decades ago by an Zionist Jew named Oded Yinon. The following is his “Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” as summarized by Israel Shahak, a well known anti-Zionist activist -

Yemen has also become a victim of
this anti-Iranian agenda. Tens-of-thousands of people have died in Yemen
in recent years. More recently, a coalition of Western-backed powers
are conducting a merciless aerial bombing of the country. Not much is
being made of the terrible situation in Yemen in the Western press
precisely because the Houthi rebels in Yemen are Shiites and the
dictatorial government in Sanaa that was ousted by the Houthis is a
Saudi-backed Sunni government. For
Anglo-American-Jews and their friends in the Middle East, the real enemy
in the Middle East is Iran and pan-Arab nationalism. Therefore, Sunni Islamist groups will always be looked at geopolitical assets.

A lot of what's happening in the Middle East is ultimately about Israel's (and Saudi Arabia's) survival. As the reader can see, plans to fragment the Middle East into smaller, weaker and more manageable states are in fact decades old. The masters of the plan in question were basically emboldened when one of their main strategic obstacles against their agenda, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991. Nevertheless, calls to smash Syria and other regional nations into smaller pieces could be heard well before the Western-backed Islamic uprisings known as "Arab Spring" began in 2011a. The following chilling words from another Zionist Jew was first published in 2010 in a book titled Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East -

As the reader can see, their intent has always been to divide and conquer. Therefore, ignore their public rhetoric and understand that Western officials do indeed want to see the Islamization (Sunni Islamization to be exact) and the fragmentation of states in the Middle East (i.e. smaller, weaker states). Why? Simply because, from an Anglo-American-Jewish perspective, Islamic societies are self-destructive/self-limiting. In other words, they are backward and therefore do not pose a long term threat to the Israel and the Western world. Additionally, Islamic states are easier to manipulate and exploit, essentially because the epicenter of Islam, Saudi Arabia, is closely allied to Western powers. We can therefore see why secular Arab nations in the region, especially those who espouse pan-Arabism or secular nationalism, have always been seen as long term threats. This is more-or-less why the secular governments of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria and Iraq were attacked by Anglo-American-Jews. As the reader can see, claims that Western/Zionist policymakers have been conspiring against countries in the Middle East and elsewhere is not merely a "conspiracy theory". This Western/Zionist plan to remake the Middle East should bring to mind former US general/war criminal Wesely Clark's troubling public confession some years ago -

While they
normally use grants, opposition politicians, news media, civil
rights activists, economic sanctions, financial blackmail and cultural
invasion as a way of undermining or subduing nations that are not
enslaved by them, the political West has in recent years resorted to remodeling the
Middle East at the tip of a very sharp bayonet.Although Russia and Iran have been presenting
serious political and military impediments for them, we are nevertheless in the midst of a
forced remodeling of the Middle East. The old format/setup put together by
England and France between the two world wars a century ago no
longer seems suitable for them in the twenty-first century.

Consequently, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, as we knew them, are now dead. Their deaths will eventually spawn new births. All the political players on the ground (i.e. Western powers, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia and Iran) are now currently maneuvering to get a piece of the territorial prize once its ready. In other words: The fighting now is more or less about who will get what after the final bomb explodes. All the political players involved in the Syrian conflict are therefore currently maneuvering for the best possible seat in the new house that;s being built. It may take a few more years and a few more hundred thousand casualties, but a new Middle East is nevertheless in the process of being created. This all naturally brings us to the Zionist factor in the Anglo-American-Jewish imperial war machine, for no conversation about the Middle East is complete without first addressing Zionist Jews and the fortress state of Israel.

Zionist factor behind Islamic terrorismWashingtonian concerns about Russia and China are understandable. After all, Russia and China are major powers and their governments indeed have geostrategic ambitions, some of which run directly counter to Western ones. Moscow and Beijing therefore do pose long-term challenges and dangers to Western powers. This is an understandable concern Westerners have. However, Washington's concerns about Iran (as well as Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon's Hezbollah) does not make a lot of sense. Iran has never and will never pose any kind of threat to the United States or to Europe. Moreover, Iran is not and have never been sponsors of terrorism. What's more, Lebanon's Hezbollah is a paramilitary resistance group. However, Washington categorizes Iran and Hezbollah as sponsors of terrorism and a terrorist organization respectively solely because of the Jewish influence (i.e. the Zionist factor) in Washington.

Washington is religiously following the Zionist agenda propagated by men like Oded Yinon and David Hirst.

Consequently, the fundamental concern or problem Uncle Sam has with Iran is that Tehran together with Syria and Hezbollah, at least theoretically, can pose a long-term threat to the military superiority of the Zionist state. In other words, with the Sunni Arab world either in ruin (i.e. Iraq and Libya) or in the pockets of Anglo-American-Jews (i.e. Saudi Arabia and Jordan), Iran - not Islamic terrorism - is the only real military challenge Israel faces in the Middle East today. They have actually been quite vociferous about it -

A Wall Street Journal commentary in 2013 had this to say about the topic:

The above quotes by influential Jews explains things quite well: What's troublingly obvious here is that jihadists in Syria are not of any concern for Israeli officials, and that Tel Aviv wants to see the Bashar Assad government defeated at all cost. As I have been telling my readers for a very long time now, Jihadists have never been a real problem for Anglo-American-Jews. I
want the reader to finally understand that Israel's main concern in the
Middle East today is not Turkey, not Egypt, not Saudi Arabia, not
Jordan, not Lebanon, not Syria, not Hamas, not Hezbollah, not ISIS, not
Al-Qaeda, not Al-Nusra... but Iran.

A few dead Westerners or Jews here and there, and some damaged property in Western nations from time to time is a very small price to pay for exploiting a geostrategic tool as powerful as Islamic extremism.

Islamic
State is the monster intentionally created by the Anglo-American-Jewish
alliance with the help of their regional allies for one purpose: To
remodel the Middle East. This is what we need to recognize about Sunni
Islamic terror groups such as Islamic State and Al Qaeda. Simply put:The expansion of Iran's military right onto the borders of Israel threatens Tel Aviv's military superiority. And since Israel exists today thanks only to its military superiority over its backward neighbors, the rise of a powerful Iran in the Middle East threatens, at least theoretically, the Zionist state's very existence. Therefore,
the last thing Zionists and their backers in the Anglo-American world
want to see taking shape in Israel's neighborhood is an Iranian "Shiite Arc" stretching from western Afghanistan to southern Lebanon. This is essentially what's keeping Jews and their supporters in the Western world awake at nights.And this is the reason why Tel Aviv will enthusiastically support any Islamic terror group that sees Iran as an enemy -

In
the geostrategic calculus emanating out of Western capitols and Tel Aviv, not only are
separatist Kurds looked upon as allies but also Islamic terror groups
such as Islamic State and Al-Qaeda. As the reader can see, none of what I have said about Anglo-American-Jews and Islamic terror groups is a theory of mine.
They have actually been quite unambiguous about their
hostility towards Iran and their very warm feelings about the Islamic State.As the reader can see, all the anti-Iranian hysteria we have been exposed
to in recent years is essentially brought to us by Zionist interests in the Western
world. The main problem the United States has with Iran is therefore,
simply put, a Jewish matter. And as we have learned in recent years,
Jewish matters in Washington get priority because, the United States has
been turned into a catalyst, an imperial vehicle, driving Jewish
interests around the world.What is happening in the Middle East is therefore first and foremost an
anti-Russian agenda (i.e. Western) and anti-Iranian agenda (i.e. Jewish). Western powers and Tel Aviv are directly and indirectly responsible for the rise of Islamic terror groups like Islamic State. There is no longer any doubt that Western powers and Tel Aviv are actively helping the Islamic insurgency in Syria. There is no longer any doubt that Sunni
Islamist groups in the region are serving an Anglo-American-Jewish
agenda. The Zionist factor therefore plays prominently in the historic carnage we are seeing in the Middle East. In any case, the aforementioned geostrategic calculus is why Anglo-American-Jews will continue supporting Islamic terror groups. And when such groups are difficult to come by, they will simply call on their friends in the region to help them create such groups. Nevertheless, thanks to Anglo-American-Jewish factor in modern global affairs, the artificially created Islamic terror factor in the world will unfortunately remain a part of our daily lives for the foreseeable future. They will make sure of it.

Islamic terrorism and its FBI ringleaders

Although Americans are too distracted by entertainment, disinformation and/or simply trying to pay their ever-growing amount of bills at the end of every month to properly notice it, the United States has morphed into a massive and corrupt Orwellian police state. As we saw with Edward Snowden's revelations, the degree of control that Washington yields over the American public today is unprecedented, not only in American history but in the annals of world history. In fact, Washington and friends spy on the entire world. Knowing how closely and how zealously Uncle Sam monitors his subjects, knowing how ubiquitous Uncle Sam's surveillance programs are, I do not for one moment believe that there could exist elaborate terrorist plots in the United States without it being known to security officials. Therefore, recent acts of terrorism by Muslims inside the United States need to be assessed from within the context of the modern American police state.

Many already know that in their effort to uncover individuals or sleeper cells capable of carrying out acts of terrorism among the Islamic community, government security agencies actively monitor internet activity. Many already know that Muslim community centers, mosques and student groups are under constant government surveillance. Many already know that government informants and undercover agents are working inside the Muslim-American community throughout the United States. We all realize that Americans, Muslim-Americans in particular, are under constant surveillance by their government. What's not very well known however is that government informants and undercover agents inside the Muslim-American community have also been known to organize/orchestrate many of the terror plots they supposedly uncover. The "sting operations" we occasionally hear about are essentially operations of entrapment. In other words, they are government agents coaxing, inciting and seducing unsuspecting individuals into performing criminal acts, which they are then punished for in public show trials.

From what we can see in the public record, most, if not all, of the uncovered/busted Islamic terror plots in the United States are actually orchestrated by government agencies like the FBI and the CIA. Again, this is not a theory of mine. The following are relevant materials about this topic -

Similar
to what undercover intelligence agents do in Muslim nations around the
world, security agencies in the United States, through their mass and targeted surveillance
programs, proactively seek the recruitment of "Islamic terrorists", which are in reality just a bunch of patsies. These
patsies are more often than not men who are young, naive, angry and/or fanatical with low intelligence and/or serious emotional problems. Through
brainwashing, such individuals are helped/encouraged to carry-out acts of
terrorism within the American homeland. Such terror plots are then either heroically
uncovered and the involved terrorists arrested or, they are allowed to take place.

This is the way Uncle Sam's war on terrorism maintains the current climate of
fear (which
they then exploit to curb additional privacy laws); justifies the work of ever-growing law-enforcement agencies (which is then used to get more funding); and of course whip up
anti-Muslim sentiments in the United States (which is then further exploited for towards imperial endeavors overseas).So, no folks, Al-Qaeda
or Islamic State is not really coming after "freedom loving" Americans. Al-Qaeda and Islamic
State are actually going after them pesky Russians and Iranians. What's coming after
Americans are Americans security officials.

Nevertheless, from
the inner-cities of the Western world to the Palestinian slums of
Lebanon to the stone-age villages of Afghanistan, there are literally
tens-of-millions of uneducated, unemployed, desperate, angry and
psychologically troubled young men (and women) waiting to be recruited
by government agents armed with Jihadi rhetoric and/or bags full of
cash and/or drugs - using whichever method happens to work best. And as
we
already know, every single Mosque, Islamic student group or Islamic
community center in the United States is under constant government
surveillance. Simply put: Nothing happens in Muslim communities in
the United States without law-enforcement bodies not knowing about them.
As we have already seen in this blog commentary, this is quite a common
way of recruiting
manipulating and exploiting terrorists around the world these days. This
approach for finding and exploiting individuals for act of violence has
been perfected by many different intelligence organizations and has been around for many years.
Israeli, Turkish, Saudi Arabian, Pakistani, Russian, British and of
course American intelligence agencies excel at this modus operandi.

Knowing what we know today, I do not for one minute believe that the Tsarnaev brothers, the so-called Times Square bomber, the Pakistani couple in California, the Battery Park assailant, the midtown pressure-cooker bomber, the Orlando gay club shooter or the Fort Lauderdale airport shooter were able to plan their attacks, arm themselves, obtain ammunition, build fairly sophisticated bombs with remote triggers -
right under the nose of security officials without them knowing about it. Besides, almost after every terror incident, we learn that the terrorist suspect was on some government "watch list", but we are told that security officials somehow screw up/dropped the ball. Bullshit. If the
aforementioned terror suspects are indeed guilty of the crimes they have been accused of committing, they
must have been assisted by their undercover government handlers. No other explanation.

Of the aforementioned terrorism suspects, perhaps the strangest case was that of Esteban Santiago, the Fort Lauderdale airport shooter. And this brings me to yet another topic that is very important to address: The role of psychotropic drugs in terrorism.

The role of psychotropic drugs in terrorism

Just
like the Zionist factor I underscored above, the subject of Western
intelligence and Islamic terrorism cannot be complete without also
touching upon the subject of mind-altering psychotropic/psychedelic medication. Mind altering substances (natural and synthetic) have always been at the
forefront of man's age-long desire to tap into the supernatural world,
experience a great "high" or create the "ultimate soldier". It is no
surprise therefore that we are seeing the increasing use of drugs on the battlefields of Syria and elsewhere. There was a very significant news item a few years ago that did not attract much public attention. It was revealed at the time that a Saudi Arabian "prince" was arrested in Lebanon for smuggling into the country two tons of drugs. What made this news item highly significant was that the drugs in question were amphetamines, and it was rumored that they were destined to go to Saudi-backed Islamic militants in Syria.

Amphetamines were
made famous during the Second World War when German and Allied troops
used them for their "performance enhancing" qualities. This class of
drugs can make its user feel awake, energetic, strong, fearless and
aggressive. It's the ideal drug for soldiers and apparently Islamic terrorists. There are other types of drugs as well. We now know for a fact that Islamic militants in Syria, suicide bombers in
particular, regularly use similar substances to help them perform their Jihadi tasks and they are being supplied from abroad -

As we can see, not only are Islamist rebels in Syria being supplied food, medicine and arms but also a variety of mind altering drugs.Of course, all in the name of Western-backed Jihad.Therefore, it can be concluded that at least some of the battlefield successes of Islamic terror groups such as Islamic State and Al-Qaeda can be attributed to their religious fanaticism plus an array of performance enhancing drugs.

I suspect many of the Jihadis that go on murderous rampages are under the influence of some form of mind altering medication. I suspect many of the American soldiers that periodically "snap" are also under the influence of drugs. Of these, Staff Sergeant Bailes readily comes to mind.The horrendous act he committed was most probably drug related. Was there much more to his story than we were told? Was Robert Bailes being experimented on with mind altering medication? What I am saying is not far-fetched nor is it sci-fi. I'm asking very valid questions. We know that psychotropic or psychedelic drugs have been worked on by psychiatrists and biochemists for many decades. The Nazis worked on them. The Soviet Union worked on them. Naturally, the successors of both the Nazis and the Soviet Union, Anglo-American-Jews have been working on them for a long time. For
a long time the American government has performed all sorts of
experiments with a wide variety of psychedelic drugs.

These drugs are constantly being
improved and it is quite logical to assume that theyare also being
weaponized. The only question therefore is: How far has the development on mind altering drugs gone?

Now I want to take a brief look at the very strange shooting incident involving Esteban Santiago, an American soldier stationed in Alaska who is said to have spontaneously purchased an airline ticket to Fort Lauderdale, where he apparently shot to death five people in the airport. That's the official story. In other words, that is the cover up story. I am at a point now when anytime a major act of terrorism occurs, especially in Western nations, I immediately begin looking for anomalies; things that don't add up. Sure enough, the airport shooting incident involving Esteban Santiago quickly revealed the following three glaring anomalies:

First anomaly: At the time of the incident there initially were several police reports as well as several eyewitness accounts claiming that multiple gunmen were involved in the airport shooting. Law-enforcement officials later recanted the initial reports, saying they were errors. Valid reports of multiple shooters that are later recanted by officials has become a fairly common anomaly in recent terrorist attacks in the United States. A similar thing occurred in the San Bernardino Valley terrorist incident involving the Pakistani couple. Second anomaly: Before the terror incident at the airport took place, the Florida state government was preparing to begin discussions about "open carry" gun laws in Florida airports. Third anomaly: It was widely reported by news agencies that Esteban Santiago had previously complained to his superiors about hearing voices in his head. It was also reported that the terror suspect had previously gone to the FBI's regional office in Alaska to tell them that the U.S. government or the CIA was trying to get him to join ISIS.

The
third anomaly noted above is what we need to take a closer
look at for it clearly suggests the presence of some form of mind altering
medication. So, was Esteban Santiago simply a homicidal lunatic who just happened to "snap" in Alaska and purchased a one way ticket to Florida to randomly kill people at the airport? Or was he a victim of some secretive, mind-control experiment? -

If Esteban Santiago was feeling homicidal or suicidal in Alaska, why did he not just do what he did where he was, like all the other mentally deranged people who do similar acts? Why did he instead purchase an airline ticket to Florida to carry out the killings there? If Esteban Santiago was just mentally ill, and we know that he had gone to the FBI to complain about hearing voices in his head, why was he allowed to remain on active duty and not taken in for mental health evaluation or treatment? Moreover, was this shooting incident and the debate on gun legislation that was said to be taking place at the time in the Florida state government merely a coincidence? Or is there more to the story than what we are being told? So, was Esteban Santiago a "Manchurian Candidate" and was what he did deliberately timed to help advance anti-gun laws in the United States? These are all very valid questions.

The use of mind altering drugs is becoming very prevalent throughout the United States. In fact, psychotropic drugs and their abuse have gone mainstream in the United States. And there is a clear correlation between drugs and the rapid and massive increase in suicides and homicides. In fact, all of the assailants in major mass shooting incidents in the United States have exhibited signs of being under the influence of drugs -

Yet, mainstream news press and government officials totally ignore these facts and instead concentrate their efforts on furthering anti-gun legislation. The increasing levels of random violence we are seeing in the United States may be for the most part a result of the adverse side-effects of mind altering drugs that an increasing number of Americans are being encouraged to take. I believe that at least some of them are related to mind control programs or experiments. Unbeknownst to us there may be an army of Manchurian Candidates walking about among us.

As we all know, science has made historic advances in recent decades. It is frightening in fact how far science has come in recent times. What we see in public or are told by officials is merely a fraction of what really exists in secretive government research centers around the world. Is it therefore really far-fetched to think that mind control or mind altering techniques have also come a very long way, especially in light of what we have been seeing in recent times?

No discussion on mind altering medications and their use by government agencies would be complete without also taking a look at an old program called Mkultra. MKultra was a government program where extensive experiments were carried-out on mind altering drugs like LSD. American officials claim that the Mkultra program was ended and all records associated with it were destroyed. Well, call me a conspiracy theorist because I very strongly doubt it. I think the program or similar programs have been developing and advancing in secret laboratories. And, seeing the highly advanced state of science, it's frightening to think of how advanced they may have become in recent years. I think understanding government sponsored mind control/altering programs like Mkultra and others that we are not yet aware of is key to understanding some false flag operations and mass shootings that have taken place in the United States -

I
therefore ask: Has the use of mind altering medication been mastered by
biochemists and psychiatrists? Are they now being weaponized? Are they now also beginning
to play an increasing role in Islamic terrorism and mass shootings that take place in Western countries? This is not science
fiction. Science is at a point where anything is possible today. Also, anything can be expected from the West
and its deep state.

Summary

The following is more-or-less the official narrative we are expected to believe: Political Islam is attacking Western countries because they hate the Western way of life,
in response Western powers and their allies are sending their
militaries into Islamic hot spots around the world to root out evil terrorists. That's the official story. In other words, that is far from the actual truth. So, anytime a "terrorist" incident takes place anymore, especially in a Western country, I immediately/automatically begin looking for anomalies, telltale signs suggesting a false flag operation.

Anytime now a terrorist attack takes place on Western soil, I begin looking for unusual things such as incriminating passports being left behind; important people involved in the case unexpectedly committing suicide; government drills taking place about the same time as the terrorist incident; reliable reports thatmultiple shooters were involved in the attack that are later explained away or refuted by government officials. Et cetera, et cetera. All of the major terror attacks I have personally looked into in recent years have indeed exhibited a number of anomalies. In my opinion, and in the opinions of many around the world, most, if not all, of the terror attacks that have made news headlines around the world seem to have been orchestrated, to at least to some degree, by intelligence agencies, most probably Western and/or Israeli. There are no terror groups or paramilitary militias in existence today, Islamic or otherwise, that are not supported by one power or another. Islamic terror organizations in particular have major state players behind them. They would not otherwise have been able to enjoy the constant financing, arms supplies and the ability of movement from one war zone to the next.

The world, especially Islamic societies in the Middle East, Central Asia and southeast Asia, is literally overflowing with millions young, angry, poor, unemployed, uneducated, violent and emotionally scarred and men and women that have the potential for becoming drug runners, arms smugglers, rebels, separatists or terrorists for one political interest or another. Due to their cultural backwardness and archaic mentalities, Islamic societies are easily manipulated and exploited, and there are virtually limitless supplies of men and women throughout the Islamic world waiting to be recruited by one warlord or another who works for one intelligence agency or another. There is virtually limitless supply of human resources around the world intelligence agencies can easily tap into. All it would take is a group of well-funded and well-trained undercover agents to indoctrinate, recruit, train and when need be deploy such individuals into various hot spots. Similarly, undercover agents with a briefcase full of money - or a crate full of Korans - can create an Islamic terror cell practically overnight. Often, such clandestine operations are coordinated with local intelligence agencies. Sometimes, however, they are also carried-out unilaterally.

Western powers have been very successfully exploiting Islamic terror groups for the past forty years. So much so that groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State today are operating essentially as the covert Islamic military wing of Western powers. This naturally refers to such terror organizations' top leadership and not its limitless supply of dispensable foot-soldiers that blindly serve them thinking they are doing "Allah's" work on earth. Also, those Islamists we periodically hear about getting assassinated or blown-up by Washington's drones from time-to-time are more-or-less those that refuse to play the game. In other words, of the Islamic groups or individuals that are actually targeted by Washington and its allies, some may be splinter groups, some may be groups that have sprung-up spontaneously, some may be groups that are supported by rival political interests and some may be so-called "lone wolves".

By supporting the rise of Islamic radicalism in targeted regions of the world, the West is also planting within them the seeds of their eventual destruction. After all, when those socially primitive and politically dysfunctional Islamic powers get out of hand, as they tend to from time-to-time, they can simply be bombed into submission by their handlers with impunity. After all, the wholesale killing of Muslims in the Middle East today is not a major ethical dilemma for Western society. The Western sheeple has been ssystematicallyconditioned to think of Muslim nations as serious threats to their way of life and Muslims in general have been utterly dehumanized by Jewish-run Hollywood, television and mainstream news press in the United States. Muslim life today is therefore very cheep.Nevertheless, during the past century, populations throughout the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia have been systematically radicalized as a direct consequence of Western policies and interventions, as well as Western support for Islamic movements in the region. Islamic nations allied to Western powers, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in particular, have facilitated and amplified this radicalization by their funding of Madrasas around the world. Consequently, today, the Middle East stands on the verge of a radical Islamic makeover. And it is all occurring with the approval and help of Anglo-American-Jews. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to realize that with the help of their allies in the Middle East, Western powers have helped Islamic forces throughout the region at every pivotal turn. As we have seen in recent years, Western imperialists have also been using the guise of "democracy" and "civil society" as a meddling tool to encourage and empower separatists and radicals in targeted nations. In the Middle East, it is primarily Islamic groups that are assisted under such guises. Empowering Islamic groups in secular Arab nations was what the so-called "Arab Spring" was all about -

Western powers fear independent, secular and
nationalistic Arab governments. Pan-Arab nationalism poses a far greater
threat to Anglo-American-Jews than Islamic radicalism. I reiterate: Islam is
backward and therefore self-limiting. And through its head in Riyadh,
Islam is also more easily manipulated, controlled and exploited.

Recent years have made it quite obvious that all the Wahhabist/Salafist groups we see throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia are essentially serving as the Islamic wing of Western intelligence agencies. There is active coordination between Western forces and Islamic terror groups. This coordination has often taken place through the intelligence agencies of nations like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Jordan and Pakistan. Western support for Islamic extremists in the Middle East and elsewhere has sought to solve two major geostrategic problems: Curbing the growth of Russian and Iranian influence and preventing the formation of pan-Arab nationalism. For powers like Saudi Arabia, acting as liaisons between Western intelligence and Islamic terror groups is therefore a good idea because Riyadh is also seriously concerned about the rise of Russian and Iranian power as well as secularism in the Middle East. Therefore there is a very clear and strong convergence of interests between Sunni Islam and Western powers. Similarly, Western support for Muslim peoples such as Turks, Tatars, Azeris, Chechens, Albanians, Kosovars, Bosnians, Afghans and Uighurs throughout Eurasia is designed to undermine the growth of Russian and Chinese influence.Therefore, have no doubt, there is
indeed a secret alliance between Western powers and Saudi Arabian backed
Islamic terror groups. Therefore, the entire official story behind groups such as
Al-Qaeda and Islamic State and the case for war against such groups
(i.e. the so-called war on terror) is stuff only worthy of a tacky
Hollywood movie. All in all, the Islamist uprisings and the bloodletting we have been witnessing in the region in recent years was designed many years ago. And it was done as a measure to ensure the long-term hegemony of the Anglo-American-Zionist global order -

To realize their neo-imperialistic dreams in strategic places like the Balkans, Middle East, Caucasus, Africa and Central Asia, they have been busy collaborating with radicals throughout the Islamic world. In other words, they have radicalized Muslims doing their dirty work. And one of their dirty work is to cause the breakup of certain nations.

The agenda in Syria and Iraq is about partitioning them and forming a new Western-backed Sunni and Kurdish states as a counterbalance to growing Russian and Iranian power in the region. The existence of such states in Syria and Iraq can also effectively dissect the Iranian Arc. So, in a sense, terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State is the monster their created and then set loose in Iraq and Syria to tear those countries apart. In the grand scheme of things, Al-Qaeda and Islamic State can therefore be looked at as the surgical scalpels that Western powers were using to give the Middle East a new Islamic look. They would have no doubt caged their monsters once their ultimate objective - to carve out a Sunni Islamic state between Damascus and Baghdad - was met. They had in fact come close to realizing this plan by the summer of 2015. A defacto "Islamic Caliphate" was established in Syria and Iraq and Western powers were preparing to put their monsters back into its cage and take control of the territory noted above. But, that was when Russia and Iran jumped into the Syrian inferno and basically "changed the equation".

In
closing, I would like to reiterate that at some level, the false flag
terrorist attacks that occur in Western countries is being made possible by
elements within the Western intelligence community, most probably with outside support
(e.g. Pakistani ISI, Israeli Mossad, Turkish MIT, Saudi Arabian GIP). Moreover, the historic bloodletting we see throughout the Middle East and adjacent regions today is
primarily due to the toxic agendas pursued by Washington and friends. Uncle Sam is recklessly playing with fire essentially because it feels it is at a safe distance away from such hot zones. I would like to therefore remind
the reader that as long as Anglo-American-Jews are not ravaged with
destruction as a result of their agendas they keep pushing
around the world, they will continue playing with fire.

Below this commentary is a sampling of news articles that have appeared in the news press in recent years. They all in varying degrees address Western ties to terrorism. There are in fact many thousands of such articles. However, due to personal time restrictions as well as blog constraints, I have featured only a sampling. I would like to remind the reader that some of these articles are attempts at deflecting blame and whitewashing Washington's role in Islamic terrorism. Therefore, reading in between-the-lines of some of these articles is absolutely essential. Nevertheless, whitewashed or not, misleading or not, deceptive or not, the troubling picture painted by these articles are self-explanatory and self-evident. And the final verdict is this:Islamic terrorism mainly serves the imperial interests (both foreign and domestic) of Anglo-American-Jews. Period.

ArevordiSpring, 2018

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America’s Devil’s Game with Extremist Islam

A Timeline of US-Cold War Politics and the Rise of Militant Islamism

It
is often difficult to trace the history of the United States’
involvement with—and responsibility for—the evolution of radical
Islamism around the world; many of the CIA’s activities in support of
Islamist groups were often covert, and a great deal of misinformation
exists. Robert Dreyfuss’ new book, Devil’s Game: How the United States
Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, is an attempt at a comprehensive
overview of this story, recounting how the CIA, guided by the belief
that radical Islamist forces could act as a bulwark against communism,
helped fuel the rise of political Islam and militant fundamentalism in
the Middle East and Central Asia. Below is a timeline of major events in
the U.S. government’s 70-year flirtation with and support for the
militant forces that would, in the late 1990s and on September 11, 2001,
come back to haunt the United States. 1933
– Saudi Arabia grants oil exploration rights to the United States, and
the two countries enter into a profit-sharing ownership of the
Arabian-American Oil Company, which discovers the first commercial oil
well in Saudi Arabia in 1938. Feb.
18, 1943 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares the defense of
Saudi Arabia of vital interest to the United States and makes the
country eligible for Lend-Lease assistance. 1945
– The United States and Saudi Arabia sign an agreement that establishes
an American military base in Dhahran, which houses American troops
until April of 2003. The Saudis also give the United States permission
to conduct a thorough survey of the Arabian Peninsula—which recommended
establishing an air base. Feb. 14, 1945 – Roosevelt meets with King Abdel Aziz ibn Saud, the first meeting of an American President with a Saudi monarch. 1951
– An accord between the two countries allows the United States to
establish a permanent military training mission in Saudi Arabia. 1951
– The CIA sets up Radio Liberty to broadcast anti-communist programs
around the world. In Central Asia, the station is used to incite local
groups, many of them Islamic, against the Soviet Union. 1952 – The Saudi-American oil company, Aramco, pays for the printing of religious propaganda in Riyadh. 1952
– In Iran, the CIA offers money to Ayatollah Abol-Ghassem Kashani, who
had formerly opposed foreign influences in Iran, to encourage Kashani to
split from Mohammed Mossadeq’s National Front. Kashani was the mentor
of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the future leader of the Islamic
Revolution, who in the meantime would become a leader of the Devotees of
Islam, an Iranian terrorist group. Aug.
19, 1953 – The CIA and the British intelligence agency MI6 direct a
coup against Iran’s democratically-elected prime minister, Mohammed
Mossadeq and restore the pro-Western Shah to power. Mossadeq’s
nationalization of Anglo-Persian Oil, along with his alliance with the
Soviets, had threatened Western interests in Iran. Sept.
1953 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower dines at the White House with
Said Ramadan, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the popular Islamist
group which since the late 1940s has been notorious for its extensive
ties to fanatics, assassins, and terrorists in the Middle East. Oct.
26, 1954– A member of a secret wing of the Muslim Brotherhood attempts
to assassinate Gamal Abdel Nasser, the leader of a 1952 military coup
against King Farouk. The group is officially banned in Egypt, forcing it
underground. June
23, 1956 – Nasser officially becomes President of Egypt. Nasser’s
left-leaning ideology alarmed U.S. officials who worried that Egypt
would be lost to Soviet control. Jan.
1957 – The “Eisenhower Doctrine” is laid out in a speech to Congress.
President Eisenhower declared that the United States would provide
military and financial assistance in the Middle East to protect against
Communist aggression in the region. Under the doctrine, Saudi Arabia
became the primary beneficiary of American aid. June,
1967 – The Six-Day War is fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors
Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Israel’s victory leads most Arab nations to
close their American embassies, leaving Saudi Arabia as the Arab world’s
primary liaison with the United States. 1970s
– Alongside the traditional Islamic fundamentalist movement, a more
radical strain of Islam begins to develop in the Middle East, including:
the Islamic Community in Egypt, and later the Egyptian Islamic Jihad
led by Ayman al-Zawahiri; militant Shiite fundamentalism in Iran; and
Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia. Oct.
1970 – In Egypt, Nasser dies and is succeeded by Anwar Sadat, who
promises that sharia will be implemented as the law of the land.
Political Islam begins to emerge in Egypt, and an Islamic banking system
is created, both of which would become essential in assisting militant,
radical Islamic movements. May 1971 – Sadat consolidates his power, purging government of Nasserites and freeing Muslim Brotherhood prisoners. 1972
– The CIA founds the Asia Foundation to fund leaders of the Afghan
Islamist movement at Kabul University. Beneficiaries include Rabbani
Sayyaf and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, two Afghans who would cultivate ties
with Osama bin Laden. The two run a secret group that infiltrates the
Afghan armed forces and will later lead jihad forces against the Soviet
Union in the 1980s. 1972
– A secret military cell is created within the Organization of Muslim
Youth, a student group in Afghanistan. The organization requests covert
aid from the CIA for its anti-communist activities, including the
killing of four “leftists.” Although the entreaty is denied, the CIA
offers its sympathy to the OMY. Jul.
17, 1973 – Afghanistan’s Soviet-friendly prime minister, Sardar Daoud,
overthrows the Afghan royalty, establishes a democratic republic, and
becomes President. The United States quickly begins funding Afghan
dissidents and supporting the radical Islamic Party against Daoud. Oct.
1973 – Israel fights and eventually wins the Yom Kippur War against
Egypt, Syria after a surprise attack by the latter two nations. In
response to U.S. support for Israel, OPEC reduces oil production. Oil
prices will eventually quadruple, enriching the Saudi Arabian
government, which uses the profits to foster Wahhabism in the 1970s and
1980s. Sept.
1973 – The CIA partners with Iranian and Pakistani intelligence—the
latter of which is loosely associated with fundamentalist Islamic Afghan
groups—to run raids in Afghanistan and stage a failed coup against
President Sardar Daoud. The effort is repeated in December of 1973 and
June 1974. 1974
– In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood issues an official statement
ordering members to support the economic reforms carried out by Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat, in partnership with the International Monetary
Fund. Throughout the 1970s, at the behest of the United States, the IMF
will require countries in the region to adopt a variety of pro-market
reforms as a condition of receiving loans—reforms which will often help
destabilize Middle Eastern politics and society. 1975
– A State Department analysis identifies members of the Muslim
Brotherhood as leaders of an insurgency against Afghan President Sardar
Daoud. After the rebellion failed, Brotherhood leaders, including
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Sayyaf, flee to Pakistan and find support from
ISI, the Pakistani Intelligence Service. 1975-76
– Under pressure from the United States, Pakistan, and Iran, Daoud
begins purging and assassinating leftists and communists from the Afghan
government. 1976
– The Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt (FIBE) is established to fund
activities of the Muslim Brotherhood. In the 1970s, the Islamic banking
system, funded by Saudi Arabia and often aided by western banks and
governments, will spread throughout Egypt, becoming the financial
backbone for militant Islamist groups. In 2001, US Department of
Treasury will designate several of these Muslim banks “terrorist
financiers.” Nov.
19, 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visits Jerusalem and begins
negotiations with Israel that lead to the Camp David agreement between
the two countries. Egypt also breaks its ties with the USSR, quickly
becoming one of the United States’ foremost allies by 1980. 1978
– Israel backs the Islamic Association, a militant group led by Ahmed
Yassin—later the spiritual leader of Hamas—as a bulwark against the
Palestinian Liberation Organization. The United States turns a blind eye
as Israel provides military training to terrorist groups. 1978-79
– The United States becomes fully aware that it was backing the Muslim
Brotherhood by supporting various anti-communist organizations in
Afghanistan. This knowledge was recorded by many State Department and
embassy memos, including one from CENTO that directly warned that the
Muslim Brotherhood was a rebellious threat to new regimes. Late-1978
– Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski presses his “arc of crisis”
thesis, which argues that the United States can reassert its power in
the Middle East by encouraging political Islam as a counter to Soviet
and Arab nationalist movements. Jan.-Feb.
1979 – Islamists, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, overthrow the
Shah and install a theocratic dictatorship in Iran. The Iranian
Revolution is seen as a threat to American interests, not least by
depriving the United States of one of its staunchest allies in the
Middle East, but also threatened the Soviet Union by disrupting the
economic alliance between the two countries and provoking irredentist
forces near the Soviet border. Jul.
3, 1979 – President Carter issues the first secret directive that
formally authorizes the CIA give direct aid to the Afghan muhjadeen,
opponents of the pro-Soviet Afghan regime. The Soviet invasion invades
Afghanistan in December. Nov.
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini coordinates the forced seizure of the
American Embassy in Tehran, precipitating the Iranian hostage crisis. Jan.
23, 1980 – The Carter Doctrine states that the United States will use
military force in the Persian Gulf to protect its interests if
necessary, although at this time it is mostly an empty threat, since the
US lacks sufficient forces in the region. Jan.
1980 – Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski visits Egypt to gather
Arab support for the Afghan war. Within weeks Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat mobilizes arms and recruits fighters from the Muslim Brotherhood,
and allows the US to station its air force base in Egypt. U.S. Special
Forces train Islamist militants in bomb making, sabotage, arson and
guerilla warfare. Many of the Islamist Arab recruits, including Osama
bin Laden, who were trained as fighters by Green Berets and Navy Seals
for the Afghan War, would go on to form the backbone of Al-Qaeda. Mar.
1980 – As a deterrent to the Soviet threat, Carter establishes RDF, a
military force for rapid deployment into the Persian Gulf in a crisis.
Regan later expands RDF into Centcom, the first peacetime joint
headquarters for military combat operations, which later serves as the
American base of operations in the 1990 Persian Gulf War, the 2001 war
in Afghanistan, and the 2003 Iraq war. Oct.
6, 1981 – Egyptian President Sadat is assassinated by radical Muslim
fundamentalists who view the Camp David peace accord with Israel as a
betrayal of Islam. 1984
– Osama bin Laden and Abdullah Assam—who was central to US recruit
efforts for the Afghan War—together establish the Services Bureau (MAK),
a nascent incarnation of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan that coordinated Islamist
jihad-fighters to foreign wars. As American goals evolve from draining
Soviet resources to winning the Afghan war, CIA funding to Afghan
militants increases rapidly, which is matched, dollar for dollar, by
funds from Saudi Arabia. 1987
– Hamas is founded, growing out of radical elements of the Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood. U.S. intelligence reports show that the Israeli
secret service is giving covert support to Hamas—as a counterpoint to
Palestinian nationalism—but the US turns a blind eye. 1989
– The Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is established in Algeria as a new
political party, out of elements of the American-supported Islamist
movement in the 1980s. FIS includes many Muslim Brotherhood members and
Afghan fighters, among them Abdallad Anas, who joined the proto-Al Qaeda
organization, MAK. 1992
– In Algeria, FIS wins the parliamentary elections in a landslide but
is prevented from taking power by the ruling FLN party, which uses the
military to arrest FIS leaders, precipitating a FIS terrorist campaign.
This culminates in the Algerian civil war (which lasts until 1999), and
provokes the United States to review of its policy towards political
Islam. Feb.
26, 1993 – Following the bombing of the New York World Trade Center,
Omar Abdul Rahman, a co-founder of the Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt who
helped the CIA recruit militants for the anti-communist crusade in the
Afghanistan war, was convicted in 1995 involvement in conspiracy. 1994-1998
– The US maintains a cooperative relationship with the Taliban, who are
increasingly dependent on Osama bin Laden’s financial support. 1996 – The Taliban provides refuge to Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, after he is exiled from Sudan. 1997
and 1999 – Members of the Taliban vacation in Nebraska, where they
visit Thomas Gouttierre, a CIA-funded propagandist who produces
children’s textbooks stocked with Islamic fundamentalist and jihadist
rhetoric for supposed State Department educational programs in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Aug. 7, 1998 – Islamic terrorist groups bomb the Kenyan and Tanzanian US embassies. Oct. 12, 2000 – Islamic terrorist groups attacks the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen. Sept. 11, 2001 – Al-Qaeda terrorists attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with suicide bombers.

In
early July, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the jihadist terror group
now known as the Islamic State—formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and
Syria, or ISIS—preached on high in Mosul and declared himself the "Caliph Ibrahim" of a new fundamentalist Sunni state
stretching from western and northern Iraq to northern Syria. This
announcement came after months of fighting over territory and skirmishes
with Iraqi forces, as ISIS invaded and captured dozens of Iraqi cities
including Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown.

In
short order, Baghdadi has become Iraq's most prominent extremist
leader. But for much of his adult life, Baghdadi did not have a
reputations as a fiery, jihadist trailblazer. According to the Telegraph,
members of his local mosque in Tobchi (a neighborhood in Baghdad) who
knew him from around 1989 until 2004 (when he was between the ages of 18
and 33) considered Baghdadi a quiet, studious fellow and a talented
soccer player. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Baghdadi was
earning a degree in Islamic studies in Baghdad.

But
within a couple years of the US invasion, Baghdadi was a prisoner in
Camp Bucca, the US-run detainment facility in Umm Qasr, Iraq. And a US
compound commander stationed at that prison—and other military
officials—have in recent weeks wondered whether Baghdadi's stint there
radicalized him and put him on the path to taking over ISIS in 2010 and
guiding the movement to its recent military victories.

The details of Baghdadi's time in Camp Bucca are murky. Some media reports note that he was held as a "civilian internee" at the prison for 10 months in 2004. Others report
that he was captured by US forces in 2005 and spent four years at Camp
Bucca. The reason why he was apprehended is not publicly known; he could
have been arrested on a specific charge or as part of a large sweep of
insurgents or insurgent supporters. (A confidential Red Cross report
leaked in May 2004 suggested than around 90 percent of detainees of
Iraqi origin were arrested "by mistake.") Army Colonel Kenneth King, the
commanding US officer at Camp Bucca in 2009, recently told the Daily Beast that
he distinctly remembered a man resembling Baghdadi: "He was a bad dude,
but he wasn't the worst of the worst." King noted he was "not
surprised" that such a radical figure emerged from the facility.

The
problem with America’s “anti-ISIS coalition” is not a matter of poor
planning or a lack of resources. It is not a matter of lacking
leadership or military might. The problem with America’s “anti-ISIS
coalition” is that it never existed in the first place. There is no
US-led war on ISIS, and what’s worse, it appears that the US, through
all of its allies, from across the Persian Gulf to Eastern Europe and
even within Washington itself, are involved in feeding ISIS, not
fighting it. Going from Syria itself, outward according to geographical
proximity, we can trace ISIS’ support all the way back to Washington
itself. And as we do, efforts like the “talks” in Vienna, and all the
non-solutions proposed by the US and its allies, appear ever more absurd
while the US itself is revealed not as a stabilizing force in a chaotic
world, but rather the very source of that chaos.

In Syria

Within Syria itself, it is no secret that the US CIA is arming,
training, funding and equipping militant groups, groups the US now
claims Russia is bombing instead of “ISIS.” However, upon reading
carefully any report out of newspapers in the US or its allies it
becomes clear that these “rebels” always seem to be within arms reach of
listed terrorist organizations, including Jabhat al Nusra. Al Nusra is
literally Al Qaeda in Syria. Not only that, it is the terrorist
organization from which ISIS allegedly split from. And while the US has
tried to add in a layer of extra plausible deniability to its story by
claiming Nusra and ISIS are at odds with one another, the fact is Nusra
and ISIS still fight together on the same battlefield toward the same
objectives. And while we’ll get to who is propping up these two
terrorist groups beyond Syria’s borders, it should be noted that the US
and European media itself has reported a steady flow of weapons and
fighters out from its own backed “rebel” groups and into the ranks of
Nusra and ISIS. Articles like Reuters’ “U.S.-trained Syrian rebels gave equipment to Nusra: U.S. military” give at least one explanation as to where ISIS is getting all of its brand new Toyota trucks from:

Syrian
rebels trained by the United States gave some of their equipment to the
al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in exchange for safe passage, a U.S.
military spokesman said on Friday, the latest blow to a troubled U.S.
effort to train local partners to fight Islamic State militants. The
rebels surrendered six pick-up trucks and some ammunition, or about
one-quarter of their issued equipment, to a suspected Nusra intermediary
on Sept. 21-22 in exchange for safe passage, said Colonel Patrick
Ryder, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, in a statement.Before
this, defections of up to 3,000 so-called “Free Syrian Army” (FSA)
“rebels” had been reported, even by the London Guardian which claimed in
its article “Free Syrian Army rebels defect to Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra” that:

Abu
Ahmed and others say the FSA has lost fighters to al-Nusra in Aleppo,
Hama, Idlib and Deir al-Zor and the Damascus region. Ala’a al-Basha,
commander of the Sayyida Aisha brigade, warned the FSA chief of staff,
General Salim Idriss, about the issue last month. Basha said 3,000 FSA
men have joined al-Nusra in the last few months, mainly because of a
lack of weapons and ammunition. FSA fighters in the Banias area were
threatening to leave because they did not have the firepower to stop the
massacre in Bayda, he said. The FSA’s Ahrar al-Shimal brigade joined
al-Nusra en masse while the Sufiyan al-Thawri brigade in Idlib lost 65
of its fighters to al-Nusra a few months ago for lack of weapons.
According to one estimate the FSA has lost a quarter of all its
fighters. Al-Nusra has members serving undercover with FSA units so they
can spot potential recruits, according to Abu Hassan of the FSA’s
al-Tawhid Lions brigade.

Taken
together, it is clear to anyone that even at face value the US strategy
of arming “moderate rebels” is a complete failure and that to continue
proposing such a failed strategy is basically an admission that (in
fact) the US seeks to put weapons and trained fighters directly into the
ranks of Al Nusra and other hardcore terrorist groups.Of course, in
reality, that was the plan all along. So even before our journey leaves
Syria, we see how the US is feeding, not fighting terrorism, completely
and intentionally.

U.S. President Barack Obama has labelled the jihadist juggernaut that calls itself the Islamic State a “cancer,” while his Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has called it more dangerous than al-Qaeda ever was, claiming that its threat is “beyond anything we’ve seen.” No monster has ever been born on its own. So the question is: which forces helped create this new Frankenstein. The Islamic State is a brutal, medieval organisation whose members take pride in carrying out beheadings and flaunting the severed heads of their victims as trophies. This cannot obscure an underlying reality: the Islamic State represents a Sunni Islamist insurrection against non-Sunni rulers in disintegrating Syria and Iraq.

Indeed, the ongoing fragmentation of states along primordial lines in the arc between Israel and India is spawning de facto new entities or blocks, including Shiastan, Wahhabistan, Kurdistan, ISstan and Talibanstan. Other than Iran, Egypt and Turkey, most of the important nations from the Maghreb to Pakistan (an internally torn state that could shrink to Punjabistan or, simply, ISIstan) are modern western concoctions, with no roots in history or pre-existing identity.

The West and agendas

It is beyond dispute that the Islamic State militia — formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — emerged from the Syrian civil war, which began indigenously as a localised revolt against state brutality under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before being fuelled with externally supplied funds and weapons. From Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-training centres in Turkey and Jordan, the rebels set up a Free Syrian Army (FSA), launching attacks on government forces, as a U.S.-backed information war demonised Mr. Assad and encouraged military officers and soldiers to switch sides.

But the members of the U.S.-led coalition were never on the same page because some allies had dual agendas. While the three spearheads of the anti-Assad crusade — the U.S., Britain and France — focussed on aiding the FSA, the radical Islamist sheikhdoms such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates as well as the Islamist-leaning government in Turkey channelled their weapons and funds to more overtly Islamist groups. This splintered the Syrian opposition, marginalising the FSA and paving the way for the Islamic State’s rise. The anti-Assad coalition indeed started off on the wrong foot by trying to speciously distinguish between “moderate” and “radical” jihadists. The line separating the two is just too blurred. Indeed, the term “moderate jihadists” is an oxymoron: Those waging jihad by the gun can never be moderate.

Number of US and Saudi supplied weapons in Isis’ hands goes 'far beyond those that would have been available through battle capture alone'

An extensive field investigation into the origins of Isis’ weaponry in Syria and Iraq has found that weapons supplied by the US and Saudi Arabia to the Syrian opposition often ended up in the jihadis’ hands, enhancing the “quantity and quality” of their armaments. While most weapons in Isis’ arsenal were captured from the Syrian and Iraqi armies, Conflict Armament Research (CAR)’s report, published on Thursday, found that the number of US and Saudi supplied weapons in Isis’ arsenal goes “far beyond those that would have been available through battle capture alone”. “Iraq and Syria have seen Isis forces use large numbers of weapons, supplied by states such as Saudi Arabia and the United States, against the various international anti-Isis coalitions that the two states support,” researchers found. The US and Saudi supplied weapons were all manufactured in EU countries, and Washington and Riyadh had broken contractual clauses prohibiting their transfer, CAR said.

Earlier this week, jihadists loyal to the "Islamic State" – a self-proclaimed Caliphate in eastern Syria and northern Iraq – ritually beheaded
American journalist James Foley, their captive since last year. The
gruesome film of the execution was posted online, of course; the IS has
eagerly embraced social media as a way of preaching jihad, seeing no
irony therein.

Empire’s Feral Friends

Foley’s executioner is reportedly British
– a UK citizen, rather, who went to Syria to join the jihad. And why
wouldn’t he? The British government has actually supported the Syrian
"rebels" that ended up becoming ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Sham),
along with the United States – sent them weapons, even. It was supposed to be a pretext for yet another evil little war,
until it went off the rails last September. Now these jihadists – once
advertised as "freedom fighters for democracy and human rights" – are
beheading journalists, butchering Christian children, and putting people’s heads on spikes.

It isn’t the first time the Empire is in bed with murderers and terrorists: prominent Washington politicians have praised the "Kosovo Liberation Army" as fighting for "human rights and American values." In fact, one such politician – John McCain – has heaped praise on both the KLA and the ISIS. The KLA-run "Republic of Kosovo" has even helped the Empire "train" Syrian jihadists, back in 2012. Maybe that explains why so many Albanians (aka "Kosovars") are killing and dying in Syria and Iraq today.

Of course, the Imperial media claim the Albanians are "outraged" that one of theirs would behead people. Yet why would they be, when the KLA had no problem beheading Serbs or committing other atrocities in 1998-99? Jihadist beheadings were also common
during the Bosnian War, but the media narrative of "Good Muslims" vs.
"Evil Serbs" insisted on burying that inconvenient fact. The Empire
continues to cover for the KLA even today.

Now Imperial officials are saying ISIS is a threat
greater than Al-Qaeda, and arguing not just for a new invasion of Iraq,
but also of Syria! It is a white-knight gambit: first one creates the
problem, then rides in to "solve it", reaping applause and adulation. Except that it never actually works, and failure leaves countless corpses in its wake.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange today said the CIA was responsible for paving the way for ISIS as the whistle blowing organisation released more than half a million formerly confidential US diplomatic cables dating back to 1979. On the sixth anniversary of the first infamous "Cablegate" by
WikiLeaks, when it releases its first batch of sensitive US files, on
November 28 2010, it has expanded its Public Library of US Diplomacy
(PLUSD) with 531,525 new diplomatic cables from 1979. In a
statement to coincide with the release of the cables, known as "Carter
Cables III", Mr Assange explained how events which unfolded in 1979, had
begun a series of events that led to the rise of ISIS. He said: "If any year could be said to be the "year zero" of our modern era, 1979 is it." Mr
Assange said a decision by the CIA, together with Saudi Arabia, to
plough billions of dollars into arming the Mujahideen fighters in
Afghanistan to tackle the Soviet Union, had led to the creation of
terror group al-Qaeda. This, in turn, he said led to the 9/11
terror strikes, the invasion of Afghanhistan and Iraq by the US, and the
creation of ISIS.

For days now, since their dramatic June 10 taking of Mosul, Western mainstream media have been filled with horror stories of the military conquests in Iraq of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, with the curious acronym ISIS. ISIS, as in the ancient Egyptian cult of the goddess of fertility and magic. The media picture being presented adds up less and less. Details leaking out suggest that ISIS and the major military ‘surge’ in Iraq - and less so in neighboring Syria - is being shaped and controlled out of Langley, Virginia, and other CIA and Pentagon outposts as the next stage in spreading chaos in the world’s second-largest oil state, Iraq, as well as weakening the recent Syrian stabilization efforts.

Strange facts

The very details of the ISIS military success in the key Iraqi oil center, Mosul, are suspect. According to well-informed Iraqi journalists, ISIS overran the strategic Mosul region, site of some of the world’s most prolific oilfields, with barely a shot fired in resistance. According to one report, residents of Tikrit reported remarkable displays of “soldiers handing over their weapons and uniforms peacefully to militants who ordinarily would have been expected to kill government soldiers on the spot.”

We are told that ISIS masked psychopaths captured “arms and ammunition from the fleeing security forces” - arms and ammunition supplied by the American government. The offensive coincides with a successful campaign by ISIS in eastern Syria. According to Iraqi journalists, Sunni tribal chiefs in the region had been convinced to side with ISIS against the Shiite Al-Maliki government in Baghdad. They were promised a better deal under ISIS Sunni Sharia than with Baghdad anti-Sunni rule.

According to the New York Times, the mastermind behind the ISIS military success is former Baath Party head and Saddam Hussein successor, General Ibrahim al-Douri. Douri is reportedly the head of the Iraqi rebel group Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order as well as the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation based on his longstanding positions of leadership in the Naqshbandi sect in Iraq.

In 2009, US ‘Iraqi surge’ General David Petraeus, at the time heading the US Central Command, claimed to reporters that Douri was in Syria. Iraqi parliamentarians claimed he was in Qatar. The curious fact is that despite being on the US most wanted list since 2003, Douri has miraculously managed to avoid capture and now to return with a vengeance to retake huge parts of Sunni Iraq. Luck or well-placed friends in Washington? The financial backing for ISIS jihadists reportedly also comes from three of the closest US allies in the Sunni world—Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

US passports?

Key members of ISIS it now emerges were trained by US CIA and Special Forces command at a secret camp in Jordan in 2012, according to informed Jordanian officials. The US, Turkish and Jordanian intelligence were running a training base for the Syrian rebels in the Jordanian town of Safawi in the country’s northern desert region, conveniently near the borders to both Syria and Iraq. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the two Gulf monarchies most involved in funding the war against Syria’s Assad, financed the Jordan ISIS training.

As
ISIS/ISIL cuts a swathe through the Middle East, retroactively
transforming Osama Bin Laden into the highbrow arm of modern Islamic
terrorism, we’ve quite naturally begun the game of deciding who to blame
for its existen. In fact, Tony Blair showed admirable consistency in
sticking to the doctrine of preemptive self-defense by firing off a
statement that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant had nothing to
do with his policies in Iraq - the moment they made their big break into
mainstream television. This
back and forth over responsibility is really at the heart of the
matter, but in a far deeper way than we usually get around to
discussing.

After
all, a good deal of Western foreign policy post-Cold War has revolved
around NATO states voluntarily assuming responsibility for issues that
were, strictly-speaking, not their responsibility. Someone needs to
‘police the world’, ‘bring the bad guys to book’, exercise their ‘R2P’
(‘responsibility to protect’ – yes, we have descended into text-speak)
and ‘nation-build’. It looks good on paper.But
if you really look at how this policy has played out on the ground, you
will notice that far from nation-building, this voluntary ‘assumption
of responsibility’ has instead sown a level of chaos and dissension that
cannot plausibly be blamed purely on ‘mistakes’ or ‘unforeseeable
circumstances’.

Instead,
it seems to be the old divide and conquer strategy at work and we
probably have keen minds like Richard Perle and Bill Kristol of the
neo-conservative think tank Project for a New American Century (PNAC) to
thank for this modern take on an old classic. We will return to the
thoughtful documents penned and disseminated by PNAC shortly. But first,
let’s try to figure out what is really going on beyond the rhetoric
when it comes to our ‘responsibilities’ around the world.

Former U.S. Army trooper Eric Harroun fought with rebels
in the world's most dangerous warzone, Syria, and was briefly jailed by
his own government, accused of joining al Qaeda terrorists there. But
in the end, Harroun died not on a battlefield or behind bars, but
quietly in his father's house in Arizona this week, his family said. "With
deep sorrow, we regret to inform you of our beloved Eric Harroun's
death. He will be missed by his family, friends, and many people around
the world his life has touched," the family said in a statement posted
on his Facebook page Wednesday. His
sister Sarah Harroun posted a comment that said he succumbed to an
"accidental overdose," but an official cause of death has not been
released.[...]

Syrian forces kill American and British citizen accused of fighting alongside rebels

Syrian
state-run television reported Thursday that forces loyal to President
Bashar al-Assad killed three Westerners, including an American woman and
a British citizen, who it claims were fighting with the rebels and were
found with weapons. Syrian TV identified the woman, releasing what it
claimed were images of her Michigan driver's license and U.S. passport.
It also released what is said was the name and passport of a British
citizen. It did not identify a third person who it claimed was a
Westerner. The report said the three were ambushed in their car in the
flashpoint province of Idlib in northwestern Syria, where government
forces have been battling rebels for control. TV footage showed a
bullet-riddled car and three bodies laid out. It also showed weapons, a
computer, a hand-drawn map of a government military facility and a flag
belonging to the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front.

Members
of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in
2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according
to informed Jordanian officials.

The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as
part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was
not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq. The Jordanian
officials said all ISIS members who received U.S. training to fight in
Syria were first vetted for any links to extremist groups like al-Qaida.

In February 2012, WND was first to report
the U.S., Turkey and Jordan were running a training base for the Syrian
rebels in the Jordanian town of Safawi in the country’s northern desert
region. That report has since been corroborated by numerous other media
accounts. Last March, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported Americans were training Syrian rebels in Jordan.

Quoting what it said were training participants and organizers, Der
Spiegel reported it was not clear whether the Americans worked for
private firms or were with the U.S. Army, but the magazine said some
organizers wore uniforms. The training in Jordan reportedly focused on
use of anti-tank weaponry. The German magazine reported some 200 men
received the training over the previous three months amid U.S. plans to
train a total of 1,200 members of the Free Syrian Army in two camps in
the south and the east of Jordan.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper also reported last March that U.S. trainers were aiding Syrian rebels in Jordan along with British and French instructors. Reuters reported
a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department declined immediate comment
on the German magazine’s report. The French foreign ministry and
Britain’s foreign and defense ministries also would not comment to
Reuters.

Seymour Hersh report on Syria: White House knew US was arming Islamic State

Pulitzer-prize-winner journalist Seymour Hersh reports that the administration of President Barack Obama, in particular the CIA, has knowingly armed militant Islamists in Syria, including the Islamic State. "Barack Obama's repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad
must leave office -- and that there are 'moderate' rebel groups in
Syria capable of defeating him -- has in recent years provoked quiet
dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior
officers on the Pentagon's Joint Staff," Hersh writes in the London Review of Books.

"Their
criticism has focused on what they see as the administration's fixation
on Assad's primary ally, Vladimir Putin. In their view, Obama is
captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasn't adjusted
his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washington's
anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like
Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped."

Hersh
writes that a highly classified 2013 Defense Intelligence Agency/Joint
Chiefs of Staff report on Syria forecast that the fall of the Assad
regime would lead to "chaos" and possibly to Islamist extremists taking
over Syria. Hersh reports that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn,
director of the DIA between 2012 and 2014, told him that his agency sent
a "constant stream" of warnings to the "civilian leadership" about the
dire consequences of ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The DIA's
reporting "got enormous pushback" from the Obama administration, Hersh
quotes Flynn as saying. "I felt that they did not want to hear the
truth."

Hackers have claimed that a number of Islamic State supporters' social media accounts are being run from internet addresses linked to the Department of Work and Pensions. A group of four young computer experts who call themselves VandaSec have unearthed evidence indicating that at least three ISIS-supporting accounts can be traced back to the DWP's London offices.

Every computer and mobile phone logs onto the internet using an IP address, which is a type of identification number. The hacking collective showed Mirror Online details of the IP addresses used by a trio of separate digital jihadis to access Twitter accounts, which were then used to carry out online recruitment and propaganda campaigns. At first glance, the IP addresses seem to be based in Saudi Arabia, but upon further inspection using specialist tools they appeared to link back to the DWP.

"Don't you think that's strange?" one of the hackers asked Mirror Online. "We traced these accounts back to London, the home of the British intelligence services."

VandaSec's work has sparked wild rumours suggesting someone inside the DWP is running ISIS-supporting accounts, or they were created by intelligence services as a honeypot to trap wannabe jihadis. However, when Mirror Online traced the IP addresses obtained by VandaSec, we found they actually pointed to a series of unpublicised transactions between Britain and Saudi Arabia. We learned that the British government sold on a large number of IP addresses to two Saudi Arabian firms. After the sale completed in October of this year, they were used by extremists to spread their message of hate. Jamie Turner, an expert from a firm called PCA Predict, discovered a record of the sale of IP addresses, and found a large number were transferred to Saudi Arabia in October of this year.

Imperialism’s Migration Agenda: Who is Funding the Refugees Transport into Europe?

Austrian
intelligence officials have reportedly revealed that US government
agencies are paying for the transport of migrants to Europe. On August
5th, 2015 Austrian magazine Infodirekt reported:

“It
has come to our knowledge that US organisations are paying for the
boats taking thousands of refugees to Europe. US organisations have
created a co-financing scheme which provides for a considerable portion
of the transportation costs. Not every refugee from North Africa has
11,000 Euro cash. Nobody is asking, where is the money coming from?”

French
government officials have also been caught selling life boats to
refugees in Turkey. France’s France 2 Television station filmed French
honorary pro-consul Françoise Olcay in Turkey in flagrante delicto.

When the official was asked if she was aware that her actions were illegal, she indicated
that there were hundreds of Turkish officials involved. Many of the
refugees/migrants arriving in Europe are being provided with false
Syrian passports. Until the violence in Syria in 2011, Syrian passports
were printed
by French government printers. This fact strongly suggests French
government involvement in the distribution of false Syrian passports.
European governments are out-sourcing the management of the migrant crisis to private companies.

The
aforementioned K-TV has also revealed that private multi-national
project management companies such as ORS Services have been making
millions of Euros from the plight of refugees. In 2014 ORS Services
received 21 million Euros from the German government and has seen
profits doubling since the refugee crisis. The Austrian newspaper Heute reported that ORS made 21 million euro this year alone from the migrant crisis.

Shareholder
finance of ORS Services is managed by the private equity firm Equistone
Partners Europe, an affiliate of the Rothschild-owned Barclays Bank,
which is considered to be the most influential financial institutions
in the world. German economist Wolfang Freisleben has described Barclays
Bank as “Rothschilds slaughtership”. Barclays is the most important
shareholder in both NM Rothschild bank and Lazard Brothers. Former
director of Barclays Marcus Agius is married to a daughter of Edmond de
Rothschild. Agius was also director of the British Broadcasting
Corporation’s executive board and served in the Steering Committee of
the secretive Bilderberg Group.

Even
as the United States poured billions of dollars into foreign military
programs and anti-terrorism campaigns, a small core of American
government-financed organizations were promoting democracy in
authoritarian Arab states.

The money spent on these programs was minute
compared with efforts led by the Pentagon. But as American officials and
others look back at the uprisings of the Arab Spring, they are seeing
that the United States’ democracy-building campaigns played a bigger
role in fomenting protests than was previously known, with key leaders
of the movements having been trained by the Americans in campaigning,
organizing through new media tools and monitoring elections.

A
number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts
and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in
Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists
like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and
financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House,
a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to
interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks.

The work of these groups often provoked tensions between the United
States and many Middle Eastern leaders, who frequently complained that
their leadership was being undermined, according to the cables. The
Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the
Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are
financed through the National Endowment for Democracy,
which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in
developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million
annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money
from the American government, mainly from the State Department. No one
doubts that the Arab uprisings are home grown, rather than resulting
from “foreign influence,” as alleged by some Middle Eastern leaders.

“We didn’t fund them to start protests, but we did help support their
development of skills and networking,” said Stephen McInerney, executive
director of the Project on Middle East Democracy,
a Washington-based advocacy and research group. “That training did play
a role in what ultimately happened, but it was their revolution. We
didn’t start it.”

Some Egyptian youth leaders attended a 2008 technology meeting
in New York, where they were taught to use social networking and mobile
technologies to promote democracy. Among those sponsoring the meeting
were Facebook, Google, MTV, Columbia Law School and the State Department. “We learned how to organize and build coalitions,” said Bashem Fathy, a
founder of the youth movement that ultimately drove the Egyptian
uprisings. Mr. Fathy, who attended training with Freedom House, said,
“This certainly helped during the revolution.” Ms. Qadhi, the Yemeni youth activist, attended American training sessions in Yemen.

The New York Times goes on to explain that these organizations are in turn funded by the National Endowment for Democracy which receives 100 million USD from Congress while Freedom House receives most of its money from the US State Department.
While the New York Times asserts “no one doubts that the Arab uprisings
are home grown,” leaders of groups now admittedly funded and trained by
the US are anything but “home grown.” The most prominent example is the
April 6 Movement of Egypt led by Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Crisis Group.
ElBaradei sitting along side George Soros, Kenneth Adelman, Wesley
Clark, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, within a US foreign policy think-tank
engenders a considerable amount of “doubt.”

Essentially throwing these activists under the bus, New York Times
exposes that the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for
Human Rights, and Entsar Qadhi of Yemen amongst others, received
training and financing from the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, and the Neo-Conservative lined Freedom House.

The New York Times goes on to explain that these organizations are in turn funded by the National Endowment for Democracy which receives 100 million USD from Congress while Freedom House receives most of its money from the US State Department.
While the New York Times asserts “no one doubts that the Arab uprisings
are home grown,” leaders of groups now admittedly funded and trained by
the US are anything but “home grown.” The most prominent example is the
April 6 Movement of Egypt led by Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Crisis Group.
ElBaradei sitting along side George Soros, Kenneth Adelman, Wesley
Clark, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, within a US foreign policy think-tank
engenders a considerable amount of “doubt.” As American bombs rain down upon Libya on the premise that Qaddafi was brutalizing indigenous pro-democratic demonstrators,
the accusing fingers of Libya, Iran, China, Syria, Belarus, and a
growing number of other nations are pointing at Washington for funding
and plotting regime change against their respective governments. Either
in an act of absolute hubris or to spin emerging evidence that the US
indeed has been funding and preparing the ground for the “Arab Spring”
for years, New York Times has recently published “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings.”

Essentially throwing these activists under the bus, New York Times
exposes that the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for
Human Rights, and Entsar Qadhi of Yemen amongst others, received
training and financing from the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, and the Neo-Conservative lined Freedom House.

The New York Times goes on to explain that these organizations are in turn funded by the National Endowment for Democracy which receives 100 million USD from Congress while Freedom House receives most of its money from the US State Department.
While the New York Times asserts “no one doubts that the Arab uprisings
are home grown,” leaders of groups now admittedly funded and trained by
the US are anything but “home grown.” The most prominent example is the
April 6 Movement of Egypt led by Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Crisis Group.
ElBaradei sitting along side George Soros, Kenneth Adelman, Wesley
Clark, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, within a US foreign policy think-tank
engenders a considerable amount of “doubt.” As American bombs rain down upon Libya on the premise that Qaddafi was brutalizing indigenous pro-democratic demonstrators,
the accusing fingers of Libya, Iran, China, Syria, Belarus, and a
growing number of other nations are pointing at Washington for funding
and plotting regime change against their respective governments. Either
in an act of absolute hubris or to spin emerging evidence that the US
indeed has been funding and preparing the ground for the “Arab Spring”
for years, New York Times has recently published “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings.”

Essentially throwing these activists under the bus, New York Times
exposes that the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for
Human Rights, and Entsar Qadhi of Yemen amongst others, received
training and financing from the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, and the Neo-Conservative lined Freedom House.

U.S. assistance to Egypt is helping political parties of all ideologies
prepare for the upcoming elections -- even Islamic parties that may
have anti-Western agendas.

"We don't do party support. What we do is
party training.... And we do it to whoever comes," William Taylor, the
State Department's director of its new office
for Middle East Transitions, said in a briefing with reporters today.
"Sometimes, Islamist parties show up, sometimes they don't. But it has
been provided on a nonpartisan basis, not to individual parties."

The programs, contracted through the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs (NDI) and the International Republican Institute
(IRI), include helping political parties in Egypt conduct polling,
provide constituent services, and prepare for election season. NDI's
chairwoman is former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. IRI's
chairman is Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

Taylor said that none of
the U.S. funding that has gone to election preparation is coordinated or
vetted through the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which
assumed power after the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak. "It
absolutely does not go to the SCAF," he said, noting that the Egyptian
military still receives billions in military aid from the United States.

Taylor, who just got back from a trip to Egypt and Tunisia,
said that he left Egypt unworried about the SCAF holding on to power
after the coming elections. "They wanted to make it very clear to this
American sitting on the other side of the table that they didn't like
the governing business," he said. "I do believe that they are
uncomfortable governing. Some would say they're not doing a great job of
it. "

Critics
say the project's underlying objective is to convert non-Muslim
children to Islam by bringing proselytizing messages into public schools
under the guise of promoting multiculturalism and fighting
"Islamophobia." The group recently ran an advertisement promising to pay
250 Czech korunas ($13 dollars) to any student aged 15 to 18 years who
would attend a two hour presentation about Islam. More recently, Muslims
in the Czech Republic have tried to ban a book they say is
Islamophobic, and have filed a ten-page criminal complaint against its
formerly-Muslim author.

The Czech government has approved a new
project aimed at promoting Islam in public elementary and secondary
schools across the country. The project—Muslims in the Eyes of Czech Schoolchildren—is
being spearheaded by a Muslim advocacy group and is being financed by
American taxpayers through a grant from the US Embassy in Prague. (The
US State Department is also promoting Islam in other European countries.)
The group says the Czech Ministry of Education has authorized it to
organize lectures and seminars aimed at "teaching Czech schoolchildren
about Islamic beliefs and practices" and at "fighting stereotypes and
prejudices about Muslims." But critics—there are many—say the project's
underlying objective is to convert non-Muslim children to Islam by
bringing proselytizing messages into public schools under the guise of
promoting multiculturalism and fighting "Islamophobia."

The group's website
says the first phase of the project involves "analyzing the accuracy of
the information about Islam in Czech textbooks on history, geography
and social sciences, and mapping the level of teaching about Islam in
Czech grammar schools and other secondary schools." The second phase of
the project involves the implementation of a three-level program that
will "acquaint both pupils and teachers with Islam and Muslims" and help
them to develop better "critical reception skills" when analyzing
supposedly Islamophobic information. According to the group's website:

"The
first level acquaints the reader with the history of Islam, the basic
religious concepts of tradition and contemporary issues such as family
[Sharia] law, the veiling of women and Islamophobia." "The second level
offers a deeper look at the issues and puts more emphasis on the
involvement of the pupils.… Pupils will be divided into three groups
within which they will study any of the following topics: the veiling of
women, media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the Czech Republic. Each
group will be led by an experienced tutor, who will acquaint students
with the problems by means of prepared materials and subsequent debate."
"The third level provides schools with artistically oriented projects
or discussions with Muslims and professionals dealing with Islam.
Artistic activities would involve making a film or taking photographs
focused on a day in the life of a Muslim or art workshops and
competitions focused on the possibility of integrating Muslims into
Czech society."

The
group also organizes thematic lectures, workshops and debates for
schools or groups of students, many of which are held at the Municipal
Library in Prague—and which are more openly geared toward converting
Czech youth to Islam. One such lecture entitled "Paths of Young Czech Women to Islam"
answers questions such as: What makes a young Czech woman want to
become a Muslim? It is the main motive always falling in love with a
Muslim man or are there other reasons? How does one convert to Islam?
How can new Muslims cope with non-Muslim relatives?

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist
group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this.
But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence
of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive
the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against
terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." -- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook

This article originally published by Global Research in 2005 sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries,
while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy, which threatens the
security of the Western World. In recent developments, the Obama
administration has intimated that it will be supporting “moderate al
Qaeda rebels” in Syria in its “counter-terrorism” campaign (i.e.
bombing raids) allegedly against the ISIS, formerly known as al Qaeda
in Iraq (AQI). The state sponsor of Al Qaeda goes after Al Qaeda? The
fact of the matter is that both Al Nusra and the Islamic State (ISIS)
are supported by Washington and its allies. And in recent developments,
Washington has asked Moscow not to bomb the Al Nusra Front, which is categorized as part of the moderate opposition. The article below describes the origins of Al Qaeda: The Base, by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military intelligence. Michel Chossudovsky, September 11, 2016

* * *

Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary
Robin Cook told the House of Commons that “Al Qaeda” is not really a
terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms
smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and
money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a
journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from
an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for
French military intelligence.

“I
first heard about Al-Qaida while I was attending the Command and Staff
course in Jordan. I was a French officer at that time and the French
Armed Forces had close contacts and cooperation with Jordan...

“Two
of my Jordanian colleagues were experts in computers. They were air
defense officers. Using computer science slang, they introduced a series
of jokes about students’ punishment.

“For
example, when one of us was late at the bus stop to leave the Staff
College, the two officers used to tell us: ‘You’ll be noted in ‘Q eidat
il-Maaloomaat’ which meant ‘You’ll be logged in the information
database.’ Meaning ‘You will receive a warning . . .’ If the case was
more severe, they would used to talk about ‘Q eidat i-Taaleemaat.’
Meaning ‘the decision database.’ It meant ‘you will be punished.’ For
the worst cases they used to speak of logging in ‘Al Qaida.’

“In
the early 1980s the Islamic Bank for Development, which is located in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, like the Permanent Secretariat of the Islamic
Conference Organization, bought a new computerized system to cope with
its accounting and communication requirements. At the time the system
was more sophisticated than necessary for their actual needs.

“It
was decided to use a part of the system’s memory to host the Islamic
Conference’s database. It was possible for the countries attending to
access the database by telephone: an Intranet, in modern language. The
governments of the member-countries as well as some of their embassies
in the world were connected to that network.

“[According
to a Pakistani major] the database was divided into two parts, the
information file where the participants in the meetings could pick up
and send information they needed, and the decision file where the
decisions made during the previous sessions were recorded and stored. In
Arabic, the files were called, ‘Q eidat il-Maaloomaat’ and ‘Q eidat
i-Taaleemaat.’ Those two files were kept in one file called in Arabic ‘Q
eidat ilmu’ti’aat’ which is the exact translation of the English word
database. But the Arabs commonly used the short word Al Qaida which is
the Arabic word for “base.” The military air base of Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia is called ‘q eidat ‘riyadh al ‘askariya.’ Q eida means “a base”
and “Al Qaida” means “the base.”

“In
the mid-1980s, Al Qaida was a database located in computer and
dedicated to the communications of the Islamic Conference’s secretariat.

“In
the early 1990s, I was a military intelligence officer in the
Headquarters of the French Rapid Action Force. Because of my skills in
Arabic my job was also to translate a lot of faxes and letters seized or
intercepted by our intelligence services . . . We often got intercepted
material sent by Islamic networks operating from the UK or from
Belgium.

“These
documents contained directions sent to Islamic armed groups in Algeria
or in France. The messages quoted the sources of statements to be
exploited in the redaction of the tracts or leaflets, or to be
introduced in video or tapes to be sent to the media. The most commonly
quoted sources were the United Nations, the non-aligned countries, the
UNHCR and . . . Al Qaida.

“Al
Qaida remained the data base of the Islamic Conference. Not all member
countries of the Islamic Conference are ‘rogue states’ and many Islamic
groups could pick up information from the databases. It was but natural
for Osama Bin Laden to be connected to this network. He is a member of
an important family in the banking and business world.

“Because
of the presence of ‘rogue states,’ it became easy for terrorist groups
to use the email of the database. Hence, the email of Al Qaida was used,
with some interface system, providing secrecy, for the families of the
mujaheddin to keep links with their children undergoing training in
Afghanistan, or in Libya or in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon. Or in action
anywhere in the battlefields where the extremists sponsored by all the
‘rogue states’ used to fight. And the ‘rogue states’ included Saudi
Arabia. When Osama bin Laden was an American agent in Afghanistan, the
Al Qaida Intranet was a good communication system through coded or
covert messages.

Al-Qaeda's
inception was a 'joint product' of Washington and Riyadh's power games
in the MENA region and Central Asia, Tony Cartalucci emphasizes; the
terror group has been engaged in almost every conflict the US has sought
to influence.

The recent conference held by the Syrian
"moderate rebels" in Saudi Arabia has highlighted that the so-called
opposition includes a number of al-Qaeda affiliates, for instance, Ahrar
al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam, designated by the US State Department as
terrorist organizations in 2012, Bangkok-based geopolitical analyst Tony
Cartalucci narrates. "Ahrar al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam are part of the
US and Saudi Arabia's wider shell game in which they train, fund, arm,
and back al-Qaeda terrorists under a myriad of varying and constantly
shifting aliases and front groups. The result has been al-Qaeda and
ISIS' [Daesh's] otherwise inexplicable rise upon and domination of the
battlefield, not to mention a large and steady stream of US-provided
weaponry and vehicles 'falling into' al-Qaeda's hands," Tony Cartalucci
points out in his recent article for New Eastern Outlook.

The
geopolitical analyst regards al-Qaeda as a "joint product" of US-Saudi
geopolitical ambitions. He calls attention to the fact that the Muslim
Brotherhood — al-Qaeda's "parent" organization — bolstered its
international activity after being expelled from Syria by President
Hafez al-Assad. According to Cartalucci, Syria's branch of the Muslim
Brotherhood was reorganized and sent to Afghanistan by the US and Saudi
Arabia to fight a proxy war against the USSR in the 1980s. "Since then,
the group has serendipitously found itself engaged on every battlefield
and in every region the US has sought to influence, whether it was in
the Balkans and Chechnya, across the Middle East and North Africa
(MENA), or even as far flung as Southeast Asia," Cartalucci underscores.
The geopolitical analyst stresses that during the US occupation of Iraq
al-Qaeda played a pivotal role in splitting the Iraqi resistance
against the American invasion.

He explains that an "army" of
international insurgents was funded by Saudi Arabia and comprised
Islamist militants from across the MENA region, including Libya. They
were brought to the battlefield "through NATO-member Turkey" and with
the assistance of would-be Syria's "opposition." The geopolitical
analyst reveals that in 2007 Washington and Riyadh were planning to use
these terrorists "again" in order to overthrow the governments of Syria
and Iran. He quotes Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh who described in
his 2007 report "The Redirection" the details of the conspiracy.
Remarkably, when the Syrian uprising erupted in 2011, it was al-Qaeda,
the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists who instigated the bloodbath in
the country.

Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda
and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but
the material may never find its way into court because of legal and
diplomatic obstacles. The case has put the Obama administration in the
middle of a political and legal dispute, with the Justice Department siding
with the Saudis in court last month in seeking to kill further legal
action. Adding to the intrigue, classified American intelligence
documents related to Saudi finances were leaked anonymously to lawyers
for the families. The Justice Department had the lawyers’ copies
destroyed and now wants to prevent a judge from even looking at the
material.

The Saudis and their defenders in Washington have
long denied links to terrorists, and they have mounted an aggressive
and, so far, successful campaign to beat back the allegations in federal
court based on a claim of sovereign immunity. Allegations of Saudi
links to terrorism have been the subject of years of government
investigations and furious debate. Critics have said that some members
of the Saudi ruling class pay off terrorist groups in part to keep them
from being more active in their own country. But the thousands of pages
of previously undisclosed documents compiled by lawyers for the Sept. 11
families and their insurers represented an unusually detailed look at
some of the evidence. Internal Treasury Department
documents obtained by the lawyers under the Freedom of Information Act,
for instance, said that a prominent Saudi charity, the International
Islamic Relief Organization, heavily supported by members of the Saudi
royal family, showed “support for terrorist organizations” at least
through 2006.

A self-described Qaeda operative in Bosnia said
in an interview with lawyers in the lawsuit that another charity largely
controlled by members of the royal family, the Saudi High Commission
for Aid to Bosnia, provided money and supplies to the terrorist group in
the 1990s and hired militant operatives like himself. Another witness
in Afghanistan said in a sworn statement that in 1998 he had witnessed
an emissary for a leading Saudi prince, Turki al-Faisal, hand a check
for one billion Saudi riyals (now worth about $267 million) to a top Taliban
leader. And a confidential German intelligence report gave a
line-by-line description of tens of millions of dollars in bank
transfers, with dates and dollar amounts, made in the early 1990s by
Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz and other members of the Saudi royal family
to another charity that was suspected of financing militants’
activities in Pakistan and Bosnia.

Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of the country

A speech by an ex-MI6 boss hints at a plan going back over a decade. In
some areas, being Shia is akin to being a Jew in Nazi Germany

How
far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern
Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the
Islamic world? Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the
powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence
until a few months ago, had a revealing and ominous conversation with
the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir Richard
Dearlove. Prince Bandar told him: "The time is not far off in the Middle
East, Richard, when it will be literally 'God help the Shia'. More than
a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them."

The fatal
moment predicted by Prince Bandar may now have come for many Shia, with
Saudi Arabia playing an important role in bringing it about by
supporting the anti-Shia jihad in Iraq and Syria. Since the capture of
Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) on 10 June,
Shia women and children have been killed in villages south of Kirkuk,
and Shia air force cadets machine-gunned and buried in mass graves near
Tikrit.

In Mosul, Shia shrines and mosques have been blown up,
and in the nearby Shia Turkoman city of Tal Afar 4,000 houses have been
taken over by Isis fighters as "spoils of war". Simply to be identified
as Shia or a related sect, such as the Alawites, in Sunni rebel-held
parts of Iraq and Syria today, has become as dangerous as being a Jew
was in Nazi-controlled parts of Europe in 1940.

There is no doubt
about the accuracy of the quote by Prince Bandar, secretary-general of
the Saudi National Security Council from 2005 and head of General
Intelligence between 2012 and 2014, the crucial two years when
al-Qa'ida-type jihadis took over the Sunni-armed opposition in Iraq and
Syria. Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute last week,
Dearlove, who headed MI6 from 1999 to 2004, emphasised the significance
of Prince Bandar's words, saying that they constituted "a chilling
comment that I remember very well indeed".

He does not doubt that
substantial and sustained funding from private donors in Saudi Arabia
and Qatar, to which the authorities may have turned a blind eye, has
played a central role in the Isis surge into Sunni areas of Iraq. He
said: "Such things simply do not happen spontaneously." This sounds
realistic since the tribal and communal leadership in Sunni majority
provinces is much beholden to Saudi and Gulf paymasters, and would be
unlikely to cooperate with Isis without their consent.

“Going After” the Islamic State. Guess Who is Behind the Caliphate Project?

The
following article was first published in September 2014 at the outset
of Obama’s air campaign “against the ISIS”. Amply documented but rarely
mentioned in news reports, the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence,
recruited, trained and financed by the US and its allies including Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Israel and Jordan. What this means is that the
ISIS terrorists are the foot soldiers of the Western alliance in Syria
and Iraq. While America claims to be targeting the ISIS, in reality it
is protecting the ISIS. The air campaign launched by Obama in 2014 was
intent upon destroying Syria and Iraq rather than “going after the
terrorists”. There is ample evidence that the Islamic State is protected
by the US-led coalition. The inflow and delivery of weapons and
supplies are coordinated by the Pentagon in liaison with America’s
allies.

The US has also used the illegal weapons market
to channel vast amounts of weapons and military hardware to the Syrian
“rebels”. In March 2017, the US military came to the rescue of
ISIS-Daesh commanders who were being evacuated out of Iraq and Syria in
US military helicopters. According to the Arabic language al-Hadath news
website:

“several
US military helicopters landed on kilometer 10 of Deir Ezzur-Hasaka
road and evacuated a number of ISIL commanders from the region. … After
the helicopter landed, several US marines took 10 ISIL commanders on
board and left the region,” …

“Abu
Dajane Fransawi has most likely been among the top ISIL commanders
taken away by the US marines, …ISIL’s man in charge of the terrorist
group’s financial affairs in Forat (Euphrates) oilfield.” (quoted by FNA)

With
regard to the Manchester and London terror attacks, this relationship
between the ISIS and its Western State sponsors (including the
intelligence services of the British government) cannot be ignored. The
blowback thesis is a red herring. The sponsors of ISIS are now heralded
as the victims of ISIS, an absurd proposition. Those who are funded and
supported by Western intelligence services are now said to be fighting
back. The ISIS has a certain degree of independence in relation to its
State sponsors. That is the nature of what is called an “intelligence
asset”. But an “intelligence asset” is always on the radar of the
intelligence services. The British government has supported several Al
Qaeda affiliated entities including the Libya Islamic Fighting Group
(LIFG) which was linked to the Manchester bombings. It is worth noting
that the release of the Hillary Clinton email archive as well as leaked
Pentagon documents confirm that the US and its allies are supportive of
ISIS, which according to European press reports, are the alleged
architects of the Brussels, Berlin and Manchester terror attacks.
Moreover, a 7-page Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document dated August of 2012, points to US complicity in supporting the creation of an Islamic State. (Excerpt below)

The
governments of the countries whose citizens are the victims of terror
attacks are supporting ISIS-Daesh through their intelligence services.

Michel Chossudovsky, March 17, 2017, June 5, 2017

* * *

The
Islamic State (IS) is portrayed as an Enemy of America and the Western
world. With the support of America’s indefectible British ally,
President Barack Obama has ordered a series of US bombing raids on Iraq
allegedly with a view to defeating the rebel army of the Islamic State
(IS). “We will not waver in our determination to confront the Islamic
State … If terrorists think we will weaken in the face of their threats
they could not be more wrong.” (Barack Obama and David Cameron, Strengthening the NATO alliance, op ed published in the London Times, September 4, 2014, emphasis added)

But Who is behind the Islamic State Project?

In
a bitter irony, until recently the rebels of the Islamic State,
formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were
heralded as Syria’s “opposition freedom fighters” committed to
“restoring democracy” and unseating the secular government of Bashar al
Assad. And who was behind the jihadist insurgency in Syria?

Those
who ordered the bombing campaign are those who are behind the Caliphate
Project. The Islamic State (IS) militia, which is currently the alleged
target of a US-NATO bombing campaign under a “counter-terrorism”
mandate, was and continues to be supported covertly by the United States
and its allies.

In other words, the Islamic State (IS) is a creation of US intelligence
with the support of Britain’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Pakistan’s
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Saudi Arabia’s General
Intelligence Presidency (GIP), Ri’āsat Al-Istikhbārāt Al-’Āmah ( رئاسة
الاستخبارات العامة‎). Moreover, according to Israeli intelligence
sources (Debka) NATO in liaison with the Turkish High Command has been
involved in the recruitment of jihadist mercenaries from the outset of
the Syrian crisis in March 2011.

In relation to the Syrian insurgency,
the Islamic State fighters together with the Al Qaeda affiliated
jihadist forces of the Al Nusrah Front are the foot soldiers of the
Western military alliance. They are covertly supported by
US-NATO-Israel. Their mandate is to wage a terrorist insurgency against
the government of Bashar al-Assad. The atrocities committed by Islamic
State fighters in Iraq are similar to those committed in Syria. As a
result of media disinformation, Western public opinion is unaware that
the Islamic State terrorists have from the very outset been supported by
the United States and its allies. The killings of innocent
civilians by the Islamic State terrorists in Iraq are used to create a
pretext and a justification for US military intervention on humanitarian
grounds. The bombing raids ordered by Obama, however, are not intended
to eliminate the Islamic State, which constitutes a US “intelligence
asset”.

“Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar,” John McCain told
CNN’s Candy Crowley in January 2014. “Thank God for the Saudis and
Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends,” the senator said once again a
month later, at the Munich Security Conference. McCain was praising
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence
services and a former ambassador to the United States, for supporting
forces fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. McCain and Senator
Lindsey Graham had previously met with Bandar to encourage the Saudis to arm Syrian rebel forces.

But shortly after McCain’s Munich comments, Saudi Arabia’s King
Abdullah relieved Bandar of his Syrian covert-action portfolio, which
was then transferred
to Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. By mid-April,
just two weeks after President Obama met with King Abdullah on March 28,
Bandar had also been removed from his position
as head of Saudi intelligence—according to official government
statements, at “his own request.” Sources close to the royal court told
me that, in fact, the king fired Bandar over his handling of the
kingdom’s Syria policy and other simmering tensions, after initially
refusing to accept Bandar’s offers to resign. (Bandar retains his title
as secretary-general of the king’s National Security Council.)

The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the “moderate” armed opposition in the
country, receives a lot of attention. But two of the most successful
factions fighting Assad’s forces are Islamist extremist groups: Jabhat
al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the latter of which is now amassing territory in Iraq and threatening to further destabilize
the entire region. And that success is in part due to the support they
have received from two Persian Gulf countries: Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Qatar’s military and economic largesse has made its way to Jabhat
al-Nusra, to the point that a senior Qatari official told me he can
identify al-Nusra commanders by the blocks they control in various
Syrian cities. But ISIS is another matter. As one senior Qatari official
stated, “ISIS has been a Saudi project.”

ISIS in Afghanistan is US tool to cause trouble in whole region – ex-Afghan President Karzai to RT

The
US uses the Islamic State insurgency as a tool in Afghanistan, aimed at
destabilizing the whole region, the former Afghan president told RT,
urging the international community to convince the US that it needs to
actually fight terrorism. No action was taken against Islamic State (IS,
formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists despite their atrocious acts being well
known “since the arrival of Daesh [an Arabic acronym for IS] on the
Afghan scene,” former President Hamid Karzai said. He then mentioned
reports of “unmarked foreign helicopters” providing support to the
terrorists.

“From
the two years onwards to today, every day the local people, the local
elders, government officials, media and others began to report that
unmarked helicopters, unmarked foreign helicopters, would go in and
support extremists in all parts of the country,” the former president
told RT on the sidelines of the Valdai Forum in Sochi, Russia. “There’s a
lot of evidence, unfortunately, that shows that these extremist forces
are supplied from the foreign bases within Afghanistan,” Karzai said.
“The question is, ‘Why? For what reason?’ And if it is continuing, if it
doesn’t stop, of course the conclusion is they are being used as a
tool.” This tool is used by the US to pursue larger regional goals,
according to Karzai.

“The
support to Daesh in Afghanistan is not definitely meant for the
purposes in Afghanistan. The US has already established itself in
Afghanistan. It doesn’t need to have a reason to establish itself there.
It must be for objectives beyond Afghanistan, to cause trouble in the
region,” Karzai said. While Afghanistan welcomes the US to provide help
in the fight against terrorism, using the country as a puppet in a
bigger regional game is unacceptable, the former president said.
“Afghanistan should not suffer for your larger, bigger objectives.
Afghanistan should not be used against our neighbors or the major powers
in our neighborhood,” he stressed, adding that the international
community and regional powers should talk the US into seeing sense and
help to restore the international cooperation against terrorism in the
country. “Otherwise things will [get] out of hand in Afghanistan and
there will be troubles for all of us, including for the US,” Karzai
concluded.

The Pentagon hired a UK-based PR firm to produce and disemminate videos during the Iraq War

A former contractor for a UK-based public relations firm says that the Pentagon paid more than half a billion dollars for the production and dissemination of fake Al-Qaeda videos that portrayed the insurgent group in a negative light. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported that the PR firm, Bell Pottinger, worked alongside top US military officials at Camp Victory in Baghdad at the height of the Iraq War. The agency was tasked with crafting TV segments in the style of unbiased Arabic news reports, videos of Al-Qaeda bombings that appeared to be filmed by insurgents, and anti-insurgent commercials – and those who watched the videos could be tracked by US forces. The report of Bell Pottinger’s involvement in the video hearkens back to more than 10 years ago, when the Washington-based PR firm Lincoln Group was revealed to have produced print news stories and placed them in Iraqi newspapers. According to the Los Angeles Times, who obtained the 2005 documents, the stories were intended to tout the US-led efforts in Iraq and denounce insurgent groups.

Bell Pottinger was first tasked by the interim Iraqi government in 2004 to promote democratic elections. They received $540m between May 2007 and December 2011, but could have earned as much as $120m from the US in 2006. Lord Tim Bell, a former Bell Pottinger chairman, confirmed the existence of the contract with the Sunday Times. The Pentagon also confirmed that the agency was contracted under the Information Operations Task Force, but insisted that all material distributed was “truthful”. However, former video editor Martin Wells, who worked on the IOTF contract with Bell Pottinger, said they were given very specific instructions on how to produce the fake Al-Qaeda propaganda films.

Has the ISIS psyop calmed down a bit? Before it dies out let’s examine some incredible ironies and oddities surrounding CIA’s ISIS. After all, the ISIS psyop deserves a thorough analysis from every angle, so I thought it appropriate to outline for the sake of humanity. Hopefully, humanity can use the ISIS psyop as a tool for the final or further awakening. It may be wishful thinking, but it is worth exposing every crack and corner of this psyop and let government know that we are not going for it this time.

I declare humanity too intuitive to buy into this psychological operation and hopefully I’m right. So while the core TV-watching, mainstream media-believing community drinks the government Kool Aid, let us get started by pointing out several glaring observations regarding the ISIS psyop. Glancing ahead, the ISIS kids have knowledge of things that require you to have education, modern technical skills, a little bit of decency, structure, conformity to societal norms and somewhat transparent connection to the outside world. What are these things and what are some of the surreal oddities surrounding ISIS? Let’s examine:

1. Professional Camera, Editing Software and Skills

Incredibly, despite being savages that only want to kill for apparently no specific burning reason other than that fact that you are not ISIS, ISIS has at least some kind of production department that can skillfully provide what could be considered Hollywood-style editing (of supposed beheading videos) with multiple camera angles, consistent daylight on their subjects and proper daylight mode video exposure. They clearly have the skills for setting up multiple cameras and using those precise angles for their production department. In order to put out these supposed beheading videos, they also had to make sure that the sounds were just right and that there was no shaking of the camera.

Someone then had to take the various video angles and properly edit the footage so as to make it look professional. The editor, apparently a man of class and decency, then is careful not to show any actual action and blood. Savage killers who are ALSO respectful and classy about being too disturbing with their videos. Instead they courteously (but sloppily) cut from the early hand action of their British-sounding supposed lead man, to the post beheading amazingly clean shot of a head sitting on a corpse with the classic Photoshop drop shadows. In Hollywood style, reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock films, the editor essentially leaves the action to the viewer’s imagination. Even though this beheading movie created by ISIS is not being submitted for any film festivals, they carefully comply with techniques that would make this film fully acceptable into almost any gore film festival.

To those who want to point out to viewers the amazing lack of blood during those first critical throat slices of James Foley’s neck, sorry, exposing this lack of blood is in itself apparently too grotesque by YouTube standards and should you post such a video it will be conveniently removed.

2. Professional Image Editing Software and Skills.

Like the editing software, the ISIS production team shows off their skills in Photoshop image editing software, which often requires an extended learning period, resources, and practice. Despite a few imperfections, the ISIS production department seems to know how to cut and splice out sections of images to produce the desired effect of disconnecting a head from the body. Even if obtaining and using the software is believable, let’s remember we’re talking about savage “terrorists” that are supposedly inhumane. In other words, these are clinically, factually documented psychopaths and not your average person according to government legend. Let’s keep this in mind (psychopaths) when speaking about ISIS.

According to U.S. “intelligence sources” mouthpieces, ISIS has all the above including social media capabilities. Amazingly, these covered-face killers have unraveled the secret of how to outsmart every world power including the U.S. Empire with regard to every form of communication. They have stomped out the U.S. military, NSA, CIA, NATO, U.N. and the intelligence of Israel, U.K. and every other nation that surrounds them. You may think it’s not every day that a small group of young face-covered kids can outsmart the world, but this could be attributed to pure luck if you believe in the ISIS psyop. Just to be able to say that you’ve outsmarted the U.S. Empire 13 years after they accelerated their plans to rule the world outlined in The Project for the New American Century document titled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” According to the ISIS psyop, that accomplishment alone is worthy of historic recognition.

Here’s a group of young kids with covered faces who maintain Internet accounts without any past due balances, they have wide open social media accounts (Facebook? YouTube? Twitter?) that are also apparently well maintained. They must understand and be properly following the rules of these social media accounts. But wait, if they have social media accounts doesn’t that mean that the social media providers are terrorists too? Unless these geniuses called ISIS are also fooling them as well. I suppose this would be realistic according to the government narrative since ISIS has apparently outsmarted everyone else.

Okay, forget social media, how is ISIS able to log on to the Internet? Do they have their own ISIS hackers?? Who do they pay their Internet bill with? Without Internet aren’t they lost? No social media and no way of knowing what is going on right? I doubt they have analog TV in their convoys? Doesn’t this present a communication problem? ISIS again quietly has overcome this problem in a flawless and mysterious manner.

4. ISIS Intelligence Operation Apparently Far Superior to CIA/Mossad

Amazingly this group of geniuses who have outsmarted the entire global intelligence community seem to have all the capabilities to put the U.S. Empire’s CIA and their globalist partner Israel’s Mossad to shame. ISIS has put on a clinic and has officially handed the U.S. and Israel their butts in the intelligence department. They not only formed right below their noses, they did it quickly, they figured out unanimously what their mission would be and all agreed on it. Football teams and all sports team for that matter throughout the world could learn from ISIS. ISIS apparently is teaching the world how a team works together. Imagine, the CIA’s mainstream media would have us believe that ISIS is powerful and high in numbers. Really? How would you get that many people to agree on anything? Every NCAA coach would learn a lot from ISIS. Here’s a group of young face-covered men who actually agree on everything. They even all agree not to attack Israel for no reason at all.

How quickly ISIS rose to power and fame and how they operate in such unity should strike everyone as very odd, yet the ISIS psyop narrative continues without missing a beat in regards to these technicalities and finer points. Any way we slice it, the ISIS psyop narratives has a group of kids with hidden faces who have revolutionized the concept of the “intelligence” operation. They solved the CIA Mossad and NSA problems and now are laughing at the global intelligence community. They did this at a time, by the way, even as uncharged innocent prisoners sit in George W Bush’s Guantanamo illegal prison for life. Can you imagine what is going on in the minds of the men in Guantanamo hearing about ISIS?

5. Super Secret Database Holding the Secret Names and Identities of Their Members

Have you noticed that no one knows who ISIS is? What are their names? Why not snag up one or two of them and let the identities come out? No, not ONE member of ISIS is capturable or identified to the world. It’s like they never existed. Not one wife, sister, brother, father, cousin, nephew, aunt, or uncle is speaking out. Apparently they never lived anywhere and never told their friends that they were going to join ISIS. Not one of the has a girlfriend or a spouse that would have spoken by now. No one has come out testifying that ISIS tried recruiting them. Oddly, we haven’t even heard of an angry former girlfriend speaking out about the initial call, no girlfriend activation system review, the recruiting effort or anything whatsoever. But without a powerful recruiting effort how did they recruit? Somehow they got around this one too. No one knows how. They simply came into being. Let that sink in.

A
2010 Washington Post article authored by former Army Intelligence
Officer Jeff Stein features a detailed account of how the CIA admittedly
filmed a fake Bin Laden video during the run up to the 2003 Iraq war. The article,
which includes comments from multiple sources within the CIA’s Iraq
Operations Group, explains how the agency had planned to “flood Iraq
with the videos” depicting several controversial scenarios.

“The
agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and
his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and
savoring their conquests with boys, one of the former CIA officers
recalled, chuckling at the memory,” the article states. “The actors were
drawn from ‘some of us darker-skinned employees.’”

Other
CIA officials admitted to planning several fake videos featuring former
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, one of which would depict the leader
engaged in sexual acts with a teenage boy. “It
would look like it was taken by a hidden camera,” said one of the
former officials. “Very grainy, like it was a secret videotaping of a
sex session.” According
to one official, the video ideas were eventually scrapped due to the
CIA officers, who spent their careers in Latin America and East Asia,
not understanding “the cultural nuances of the region.”

“Saddam
playing with boys would have no resonance in the Middle East — nobody
cares,” a third former CIA official said. “Trying to mount such a
campaign would show a total misunderstanding of the target. We always
mistake our own taboos as universal when, in fact, they are just our
taboos.”

The article does however admit that one specific psyop was successfully implemented, linking to a document from the Rand Corporation that explains the program. “According
to histories of the 2003 invasion, the single most effective
‘information warfare’ project, which originated in the Pentagon, was to
send faxes and e-mails to Iraqi unit commanders as the fighting began,
telling them their situation was hopeless, to round up their tanks,
artillery and men, and go home,” the article states. “Many did.” While
the aforementioned videos were never released, the much looked over
admission of such psychological operations raises questions in light of
the recent ISIS beheading videos.Only days after Infowars’ questioned several discrepancies in the James Foley beheading video, top British forensic experts concluded that the video was likely staged using “camera trickery and slick post-production techniques.” “After enhancements, the knife can be seen to be drawn across the upper neck at least six times, with no blood evidence to the point the picture fades to black,” an analyst said.”I think it has been staged. My feeling is that the execution may have happened after the camera was stopped.” Given the brutality seen in many of ISIS’ grainy, low quality cell phone videos from Iraq and Syria, many have also begun questioning why the “beheading” video’s hide the actual beheading while also exhibiting more advanced editing techniques and high definition cameras.

Pentagon and CIA Exploiting Social Media to Keep the Endless War on Terror Alive

The
Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies exploit social media to keep
the endless war on terror alive. Earlier this month we learned DARPA,
the Pentagon’s research lab, has funded an array of social media
studies, including analyses on various social and political memes,
celebrities and disinformation.

“The
project list includes a study of how activists with the Occupy movement
used Twitter as well as a range of research on tracking internet memes
and some about understanding how influence behavior (liking, following,
retweeting) happens on a range of popular social media platforms like
Pinterest, Twitter, Kickstarter, Digg and Reddit,” RT reported. The
Pentagon studies paralleled an experiment by Facebook controlling
emotions by manipulating news feeds. Facebook has connections to the CIA
and the Pentagon.

“Shortly
before the Facebook controversy erupted, Darpa published a lengthy list
of the projects funded under its Social Media in Strategic
Communication (SMISC) program, including links to actual papers and
abstracts,”write Ben Quinn and James Ball for The Guardian.

ISIS Exploits Social Media

IS, the Islamic State, formerly ISIS, has used social media as an effective propaganda tool. “The
extremist group battling the Iraqi government, the Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria, may practice a seventh-century version of fundamentalist
Islam, but it has demonstrated modern sophistication when it comes to
using social media, particularly Twitter and other sites like WordPress
and Tumblr,” The New York Times reported in June. The
United States is not trying to diminish the social media reach of IS
despite the fact this would logically be near the top of its to-do list
in combating the rapidly expanding terrorist caliphate.

“U.S.
intelligence prefers for these accounts to stay up, rather than come
down,” an anonymous employee at a major social media company told
Mashable. "American intelligence officials are monitoring the ISIL
accounts, trying to glean information about the deadly group and its
strengths, tactics and networks.” “Social
media ‘is one of the many sources’ American analysts monitor when
‘assessing the fluid ISIL situation,’ a U.S. intelligence official told
Mashable on condition of anonymity.”

Critics
say bureau is running a sting operation across America, targeting
vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots

David
Williams did not have an easy life. He moved to Newburgh, a gritty,
impoverished town on the banks of the Hudson an hour or so north of New York,
at just 10 years old. For a young, black American boy with a father in
jail, trouble was everywhere. Williams also made bad choices. He ended
up going to jail for dealing drugs. When he came out in 2007 he tried to
go straight, but money was tight and his brother, Lord, needed cash for
a liver transplant. Life is hard in Newburgh if you are poor, have a
drug rap and need cash quickly.

His
aunt, Alicia McWilliams, was honest about the tough streets her nephew
was dealing with. "Newburgh is a hard place," she said. So it was
perhaps no surprise that in May, 2009, David Williams was arrested again
and hit with a 25-year jail sentence. But it was not for drugs
offences. Or any other common crime. Instead Williams and three other
struggling local men beset by drug, criminal and mental health issues
were convicted of an Islamic terrorist plot to blow up Jewish synagogues
and shoot down military jets with missiles.

Even
more shocking was that the organisation, money, weapons and motivation
for this plot did not come from real Islamic terrorists. It came from
the FBI, and an
informant paid to pose as a terrorist mastermind paying big bucks for
help in carrying out an attack. For McWilliams, her own government had
actually cajoled and paid her beloved nephew into being a terrorist,
created a fake plot and then jailed him for it. "I feel like I am in the
Twilight Zone," she told the Guardian.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000
undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in
1975. If you think that’s a few spies too many — spies earning as much
as $100,000 per assignment — one doesn’t have to go too deep into their
track record to see their accomplishments. Those agents are responsible
for an overwhelming amount of terrorist stings that have stopped major
domestic catastrophes in the vein of 9/11 from happening on American
soil.

Another thing those agents are responsible for, however, is plotting
those very schemes. The FBI has in recent years used trained informants
not just to snitch on suspected terrorists, but to set them up from the
get-go. A recent report put together by Mother Jones and the
Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkley
analyses some striking statistics about the role of FBI informants in
terrorism cases that the Bureau has targeted in the decade since the
September 11 attacks.

The report reveals that the FBI regularly infiltrates communities where
they suspect terrorist-minded individuals to be engaging with others.
Regardless of their intentions, agents are sent in to converse within
the community, find suspects that could potentially carry out “lone
wolf” attacks and then, more or less, encourage them to do so. By
providing weaponry, funds and a plan, FBI-directed agents will encourage
otherwise-unwilling participants to plot out terrorist attacks, only to
bust them before any events fully materialize.

Additionally, one former high-level FBI officials speaking to Mother
Jones says that, for every informant officially employed by the bureau,
up to three unofficial agents are working undercover. The FBI has used
those informants to set-up and thus shut-down several of the more high
profile would-be attacks in recent years. The report reveals that the
Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the New York City subway plot, the
attempt to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and dozens more were all
orchestrated by FBI agents. In fact, reads the report, only three of the
more well-known terror plots of the last decade weren’t orchestrated by
FBI-involved agents.

A Florida sheriff has admitted the FBI tried to lure the Orlando Shooter into participating in a terror plot years ago, amid claims the FBI has hundreds or even thousands of unstable individuals running around, often on the government payroll, playing ‘terrorist games.’ While terror experts and former counter-terror officials have criticized the FBI for failing to stop Omar Mateen before he committed a massacre, the new revelation raises the question of whether the FBI played a role in pushing Mateen towards an act of lethal violence.

Sheriff Ken Mascara of Florida’s St. Lucie County told the Vero Beach Press Journal that after Mateen threatened a courthouse deputy in 2013 by claiming he could order Al Qaeda operatives to kill his family, the FBI dispatched an informant to “lure Omar into some kind of act… and Omar did not bite.” The significance of this cannot be understated. “Informants” in this context, according to FBI affidavits regarding similar counterterrorism investigations, refers to individuals posing as members of terrorist organizations who approach suspects, coerce them into planning and preparing for terrorist attacks, before finally aiding the FBI in the suspect’s arrest before the attack is finally carried out.

Among the activities these informants carry out includes providing and training suspects in the use of real explosives, providing suspects with arsenals of weapons precisely like those used in the recent shooting in Orlando Florida, and encouraging suspects to adopt “radical ideology” over the course of the investigation. Suspects are given the false impression that they are working on behalf of terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda or the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” often cultivating delusions of grandeur among otherwise mentally ill suspects.

Considering the disturbing activities conducted by FBI informants during these “investigations,” the FBI appears obligated to tell the American public just what their “informants” were doing with Florida shooting suspect Omar Mateen in the 10 months they were “investigating” him beginning in 2013. Did they also walk Mateen through planned attacks he ultimately backed out of? Did he eventually change his mind again after the FBI’s investigation was allegedly closed?

Mainstream Media and FBI Push Fake Terror Attack Even After Their Patsy Refused to Do It

FBI informants were holding bait in front of a depressed, suicidal man, and were giving him a sense of attention and companionship that he was likely lacking in his own life. Ultimately, two days after meeting with FBI informants in person, the criminal complaint noted that Jameson sent a message on Dec. 18, saying, “I don’t think I can do this after all. I’ve reconsidered.”

It is no secret that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation often look for and take advantage of vulnerable individuals on the internet by gaining their trust and convincing them to carry out attacks—but even in a case where the “terrorist” backed out of the attack, the mainstream media is still celebrating the FBI’s diligence in the War on Terror.

“FBI thwarts alleged plan to carry out terrorist attack in San Francisco on Christmas,” the Washington Post reported, claiming that the agency was able to prevent “a possible terrorist attack at San Francisco’s Pier 39 after arresting a man who told undercover agents he wanted to carry out an Islamic State-inspired suicide bombing at the popular tourist destination on Christmas Day.”

The New York Post joined in with the headline “FBI thwarts ISIS-inspired Christmas terror attack on San Francisco,” and the claim that the suspect was “former US Marine sharpshooter” Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, who was discharged from the military for fraudulent enlistment, and now works as a tow truck driver. The Department of Justice released a statement confirming that Jameson has been arrested for “attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.” If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

According to court documents, Jameson had several online interactions with a confidential source in which he expressed support for the October 31, 2017, terrorist attack in New York City and offered his services for ‘the cause.’ In subsequent communications with an undercover agent, Jameson referred to his training in the U.S. military and noted he had been trained for combat and war. Jameson later met with another undercover agent whom he believed to be associated with the senior leadership of the foreign terrorist organization, ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIL). During his interactions with this undercover agent, Jameson offered to carry out violent acts and to provide financial support for the terrorist organization.”

Now, the question is—how did FBI agents find Jameson, and did he actually pose a threat of carrying out a terrorist attack? The Los Angeles Times reported that Jameson began studying Islam one year ago, after he became “depressed and even suicidal over losing custody of his children.” However, his family insisted that he did not have violent tendencies, and had never mentioned anything about becoming involved with the Islamic State. “He just ain’t no terrorist, no way,” Jameson’s father said. “He would never hurt people. Not ever. It’s just unbelievable. That’s not who he is.”

The criminal complaint filed against Jameson claimed that he first caught the agency’s attention when a “credible FBI Confidential Human Source” flagged his Facebook account as suspicious on Sept. 19, for “Liking” and “Loving” posts that were “pro-ISIS and pro-terrorism.”

To provide an example of the types of posts Jameson was ‘Liking’ and ‘Loving’ during this time period, the CHS reported to the FBI that Jameson “loved” a post on November 29, 2017 that is an image of Santa Claus standing in New York with a box of dynamite. The text of the post reads, ‘ISIS post image of Santa with dynamite threatening attack on New York.’ The Propaganda poster shows Santa Claus standing on a roof next to a box of dynamite looking out over a crowd of shoppers with the words ‘We meet at Christmas in New York… soon.’ Under this post, Jameson selected the ‘Like’ option and then selected the “Heart” option to signify that he ‘Loved’ the post.”

However, the fact that Jameson “liked” a post on Facebook about an ISIS attack in the United States on Christmas day, does not guarantee that he would have actually carried out such an attack by himself. While the complaint does detail the conversations Jameson had with FBI informants, and it shows that he appeared eager to provide supplies for an attack on a crowded area, and willing to carry out, he was never in contact with a suspected member of ISIS. It is also important to consider the context. FBI informants were holding bait in front of a depressed, suicidal man, and were giving him a sense of attention and companionship that he was likely lacking in his own life. Ultimately, two days after meeting with FBI informants in person, the criminal complaint noted that Jameson sent a message on Dec. 18, saying, “I don’t think I can do this after all. I’ve reconsidered.”

Defense attorneys say an alleged plot to bomb New York synagogues was
hatched and directed by a federal informant. Lawyers for four men from
Newburgh have filed a motion to dismiss the terror indictment against
them. They said the informant badgered the defendants until they got
involved in the plot. They said the informant chose the targets,
supplied fake bombs for the synagogues and a fake missile to shoot down
planes. The motion said he also offered to pay the defendants, who
attorneys alleged weren't inclined toward any crime until the informant
began recruiting them.

"The government well knew that their case had been a
government-inspired creation from day one and that the defendants had
not been independently seeking weapons or targets," the motion
said.Federal court spokesman Herb Hadad said the government would file
its response next month. The four men, who were arrested last May, face
up to life in prison if convicted. They have been previously identified
as James Cromitie, 55, David Williams, 28, Onta Williams, 32, and
Laguerre Payen, 27, all of Newburgh in upstate New York, where
authorities were conducting raids at their homes, sources said.

Authorities have said they had the plotters under surveillance since
June of 2008 and there was "no chance" the alleged scheme could succeed.
They credited the work of a long time informant with keeping tabs on
the group. The FBI has said the Muslim suspects were angry and full of
hate for America. According to the criminal complaint, Cromitie said "I
hate those f-ing Jewish bastards." He bragged that it would be a "piece
of cake" to bomb a Jewish Center in Riverdale, according to the
complaint. He said his father lives in Afghanistan and he was upset
about U.S. military presence there. "The fact that this type of hatred
exists means that we all have to be vigilant all of the time," city
councilman Jeffrey Dinowitz said Thursday.

The father of an Ohio man arrested Wednesday for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol says his son is not a terrorist and was set up by the FBI.
Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, was arrested on charges of attempting to
kill a U.S. government official, authorities said. He allegedly planned
to detonate pipe bombs at the national landmark and open fire on any
employees and officials fleeing after the explosions, according to
government documents. But his parents paint a different picture, saying
their son had a normal childhood and that they were shocked by the
arrest. “I know my son probably better than anyone,” Cornell’s father,
John Cornell Sr., told ABC News. “He’s a mommy’s boy. His best friend is
his cat Mikey. He still calls his mother ‘Mommy.’ Just a typical kid.”

Cornell’s mother, Angela Carmen, said her son is a good person,
interested in wrestling but also a homebody. “I just love my son. I’ll
do anything in the world for him, and I’ll be right by his side,” she
said. The FBI first noticed Cornell several months ago, after an
informant notified the agency that Cornell was allegedly voicing support
for violent “jihad” on Twitter
accounts under the alias, “Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah,” according to
charging documents. In addition, Cornell allegedly posted statements,
videos and other content expressing support for ISIS – the terrorist
group also known as ISIL – that is wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria.
He later met an informant in Cincinnati over two days in October, and
then another two days in November. During the last meeting, Cornell told
an FBI informant that members of Congress were enemies and he wanted to
launch an attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, according to charging documents. John Cornell Sr. says there’s no way his son could have thought up a terror plot on his own.

“He
told me he had went to a mosque and now I know, in hindsight I know, he
was meeting with an FBI agent,” he told ABC News. “And they were taking
him somewhere, and they were filling his head with a lot of this
garbage.”

The FBI Pressured a Lonely Young Man Into a Bomb Plot. He Tried to Back Out. Now He’s Serving Life in Prison. The alleged terrorist said he went along with the plot because he was afraid that FBI agents, posing as ISIS members, would kill his family

When he was born in Cuba, Suarez had blue skin. His fragile brain had been deprived of oxygen, a tragedy his family points to in explaining his lifelong social and intellectual challenges. As a child, Suarez also suffered several significant head injuries, including being struck by a brick and falling off motorcycles without a helmet on. His parents brought him to Key West, Florida, in 2004, when he was 12 years old. He struggled in the public education system and dropped out of high school. He then took odd jobs in Key West — stocking store shelves, cleaning up restaurants, working in kitchens. Even after more than a decade in the United States, he spoke English without confidence.

In 2015, seeing reports about the Islamic State on cable news, Suarez became intrigued by the terrorist group, he explained to an FBI informant. He was 23 years old at the time and still living in Key West. He was slender and fit, with tattoos covering his chest, stomach, and arms. He wore his brown hair cropped close to his scalp, and a goatee covered the bottom of his chin.

Suarez began to identify as Muslim and gave himself an Arabic name: Almlak Alaswd, which translates to “dark angel.” He said he wanted to be part of ISIS, but he knew little about the group or its rival organizations. He thought Osama bin Laden had founded ISIS, and he admitted to an FBI informant that he didn’t know what Hamas was or how the group was different from ISIS.

Suarez created a Facebook profile and began posting ISIS propaganda and videos. He seemed to be searching for ISIS members in his ignorant attempt to become one. Facebook had already taken down four of Suarez’s previous profiles for improper content; each time, Suarez just created a new one and continued to post ISIS material. His online activity attracted the FBI’s attention, and an agent in Miami asked a rookie informant named Mohammed Skaik to help determine if Suarez might be a threat.

A U.S. military officer in the inactive reserves, Skaik was born in the Middle East and moved to the U.S. at age 16. He was fluent in Arabic, his first language, and he spoke English with a flawless American accent. When the FBI recruited Skaik in late 2014, he was a research assistant at a Florida medical school, and he had ambitions to study to be a doctor. The FBI offered what was essentially a part-time gig posing online as a man sympathetic to and interested in ISIS.

Following FBI instructions, Skaik sent Suarez a Facebook friend request. “Hey, brother, can you add me, please?” Skaik wrote. “I have something extremely important to communicate to you.” Suarez accepted the friend request. On his profile, Suarez said he lived in Miami. Skaik was just north in West Palm Beach, so not knowing that Suarez was actually in Key West, the informant assumed he and Suarez were practically neighbors.

The latest media driven shooting attack said to have taken place in San Bernardino, California over a week ago now – and still there’s a growing list of details that don’t add up.

After a week of whitewashed reports, a media scripted ransacking of the alleged ‘shooters’ home (tampering with a potential crime scene) and eyewitness accounts that contradict the official narrative, we also learn that in the very room where 14 people were reportedly killed (along with 21 injured) during a deadly shooting attack at the Inland Regional Center, there was an “active-shooter” training drill involving some of the victims almost a year before the attack. Here’s what doesn’t add up…

New information emerged casually in the mainstream media, prompting critics of such sensationalized events to have even more reason to question the validity of the official story surrounding this latest ‘mass shooting’ incident. In our previous articles on this subject, we pointed out multiple markers which clearly indicate ‘active shooter’ armed rehearsal drills held at and around the Inland Regional Center location. Here’s another – another unbelievable development discussed recently by the LA Times:

“About a year ago, employees of San Bernardino County’s Environmental Health Services division underwent an “active-shooter training.” “It was held at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino — in the very same room that would one day be a site of bloodshed and horror.” “It was not clear if gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, an environmental health specialist for the county, attended the earlier training, but some of the victims of Wednesday’s mass shooting were likely to have participated, said a county spokeswoman.”

One must consider that statistically speaking, the chances of a real shooting event taking place in the exact same room where a multi-agency ‘active shooter’ drill took place approximately one year ago – has to be close to zero. Furthermore, this strange and unlikely coincidence should highlight the suspicious nature of the shooting event itself. More than any other entity, the mainstream media are playing the central role in managing the official version of events in San Bernardino… ‘DESTROYING EVIDENCE’ – Why would authorities allow members of the press and victims families to trample into a potential crime scene?

“THREE shooters are said to have opened fire with ‘long guns’ [AR15 model rifle] inside a conference venue, in the Inland Regional Center, a government-run disabled services office complex, located in San Bernardino. Police gave chase to suspects and claim that 3 assailants were masked (therefore could not be ID’d at the scene), heavily armed and possibly wearing body armor.”

In fact, authorities did apprehend a third suspect but that aspect of the case, has seemingly gone down the memory hole, as has the very detailed eye-witness testimony from Sally Abdelmageed, (an Inland Regional Center employee) in a CBS interview with Scott Pelley, which clearly states that there were three white men in tactical gear dressed in black involved in the shooting event. Abdelmageed’s account, echoed that of Juan Hernandez, who was interviewed shortly after the shooting incident by a local NBC affiliate, where it was described that “three white men in military fatigues,” had fled the scene in black Chevy Impala or SUV.

On
December 25 the United States authorities arrested a 23-year-old
Nigerian Farouk Umar Abdul Mutallab aboard a Delta Airline flight from
Amsterdam that landed in Detroit. News reports emanating from the U.S.
indicate that it was an attempted terrorist attack that resulted in the
fire and that Abdul Mutallab was either connected with Al-Qaida or
sympathetic to its aims.

However, this incident raises a number of serious questions about the
character of the attack. First of all why was Abdul Mutallab granted a
multiple-entry visa into the United States in June 2008? In November,
his father, Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab, 70, a prominent and wealthy
Nigerian banker who recently retired as Chairman of the First Bank Plc
of Nigeria, warned the American embassy in Nigeria about concerns
related to his son’s behaviour. The senior Mutallab also served as
Minister of Economic Development and Reconstruction during the mid-1970s
in the Federal Nigerian Government that was under military rule at the
time.

Consequently, why was Farouk Umar Abdul Mutallab allowed to maintain
his U.S. visa status and board a plane bound for the United States?
There have been reports that he had spent time in the United Arab
Emirates and Yemen and implying that this may indicate a connection with
Al-Qaida. However, there has been no specific evidence that he has
links with Islamic organizations including Al-Qaida.

Airport Shooter Said He Was "Mind Controlled" By A U.S. Intelligence Agency

Airport
shooter admits he was ‘mind controlled’ by intelligence agency,
eyewitness claims there were at least three other “sleepers,” shooters,
with high-powered rifles shooting into crowd. Eyewitness: “There was like at least three people in there still shooting” after the first guy was caught.

Demoted
and discharged Alaska National Guard private first class and alleged
killer of 5 people at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International
Airport, Esteban Santiago, 26, may have been mind controlled or mentally
ill, according to FBI officials. Santiago, who was arrested in January
and waiting to stand trial in March on criminal charges, recently showed
up to an F.B.I. office in Anchorage unannounced seeking help.

Santiago
told the F.B.I. he thought he was being mind controlled, possibly by the
U.S. government or the C.I.A. and admitted hearing voices, which
Santiago said told him to study “extremist materials on the Internet,”
the New York Times reports. Despite
the fact that Santiago himself, his girlfriend, and even co-workers
warned authorities of his experiences the F.B.I. failed to detain him
before his travels to Florida. “Records show Santiago had three driver’s
licenses from Alaska, New York and Puerto Rico,” along with his
military I.D., which were all on his person during Friday’s shooting, as
reported by a local ABC news affiliate.

This article reviews the “mysterious” phenomenon of IDs and Passports of terror suspects routinely discovered (often in the rubble) in the wake of a terrorist attack. In most cases the alleged suspect was known to the authorities. Is there a pattern? The ID papers of the suspect are often left behind, discovered by police in the wake of a terrorist attack.

Reports concerning the Barcelona attack, reveal exactly the same feature of passports and IDs left behind which occurred in Manchester, Paris, Nice, London, New York, and now Barcelona (August 17, 2017) (see below). A Spanish passport of “a person of Moroccan origin was found at the scene of the attack” according to Britain’s Daily Express. The Spanish media reports confirm that the suspect is Spanish from the autonomous city of Melilla which has borders with Morocco. Police sources state that his identity is being used in the investigation. The reports are notoriously contradictory: the latest Telegraph report (18/08/17) suggests that the suspect who was driving the van is 18 years old by the Name of Moussa Oukabir, and that his brother is Driss Oukabir, 28 years old and that it was his brother who rented the vehicle. Earlier reports by El País (August 17) stated that the alleged suspect 28-year-old Driss Oukabir, had been arrested by the Police, while El Nacional reported that the suspect:

“presented himself at a Catalan police station in Ripoll to deny having any involvement in this afternoon’s attack. He claims his ID was stolen and used by the terrorists to rent one of the vans used for the attack. Local sources, confirmed by the town’s mayor, Jordi Munell, have said that the young man, who lives in Ripoll, attended the police station to deny any involvement in the events” (Daily Express, August 17, 2017)

The report below suggests that the passport discovered in the van provided a lead to “the Alcanar house where bombs were being prepared”. Allegedly the passport was found in the van used for the attack in “an accidental explosion that took place on Thursday morning in the town of Tarraconense. This finding allowed linking the terrorist attack in Barcelona with a wounded in the Alcanar accident”.

Limoges deputy director of regional judicial police committed suicide hours after being tasked with investigating the family of one of the Charlie Hebdo victims

A high-ranking judicial police chief in Limoges committed suicide last Wednesday hours after being asked to file a report on the Charlie Hebdo killings, it has emerged. Helric Fredou, 45, the deputy director of the regional judicial police in Limoges turned his gun on himself last Wednesday night, hours after Cherif and Said Kouachi killed 12 people in an Islamist rampage, including two policemen. He had been tasked with investigating the family of one of the victims, but died before handing in the report. He had reportedly interviewed families of Charlie Hebdo victims in the hours after the attack. It is not known if his decision to commit suicide has any link to the Charlie Hebdo killings.

"We are all stunned. He was someone who was very humane and close to people," said Pascal Cayla of the Alliance union. Colleagues said Mr Fredou had been deeply affected by the suicide of the number three of the Limoges judicial police in 2013 after he discovered the body. His colleague had left a note citing "personal reasons". Since the twin attacks last week that rocked France and left 17 people dead, there has been an outpouring of support for the country's police force, which polls regularly suggest has a poor image among many French. There were banners reading "We love the police" at Sunday's huge march in Paris and cities around France

What
do the globalists do when they want to create, reignite and keep their
war on terror fought indefinitely? They simply carry out a series of
false flag attacks using Muslim terrorist stooges as their hired guns to
do their damage. That’s what 9/11 was all about in the US, 7/7 in UK, the 3/11 train attack in Spain, the Hebdo Paris attack
last January, and now this latest Paris encore reenactment part two.

In
any unsolved crime the first question asked is who benefits by motive
with an actual means to execute the crime? In all of these tragic false
flag events the global elite benefits in multiple ways. And it most
definitely has the means by issuing marching orders to its owned and
operated national governments, its favorite being the militaristic,
brutal American Empire. The elite’s agenda to polarize and destabilize
the world politically and militarily manifests through the US foreign policy of regime change, nonstop war through divide and conquer
methodology (i.e., Shiites vs. Sunnis, Euro-nationals vs. foreign
migrants, Christians vs. Muslims, light skins vs. dark skins) and
economic austerity through unpayable high interest from predatory IMF
bank loans to debtor nations from both the developing and developed
world. Through global theft and destruction, the ruling elite reigns
supreme in absolute power.

For
decades after World War II US-NATO-Western European allies conspired
and perpetrated state sponsored terrorism murdering their own citizens
through a protracted series of Gladio operations
originally designed to falsely accuse Communist groups in Italy.
Spanning over thirty years with violent incidents throughout Europe and Turkey, Gladio-like false flag operations never stopped. Gladio at home took the form of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Operation Northwoods
that JFK abruptly halted, partially resulting in his own self-undoing,
killing the diabolical military plot of murdering innocent US citizens
in Miami and Washington DC in order to blame and start a war against
Cuba. The US especially but numerous governments have regularly engaged
in false flag operations
killing their own to trigger wars, shape public opinion, conceal and
divert attention away from citizens ever catching on to the dirty
lowdown truth.

The Friday the 13th Paris massacres were highly organized, committed by
heavily armed, closely monitored terrorist professionals unleashed onto
an unsuspecting, culturally diverse group of young Paris victims. The
coordinated attacks seem to carry all the earmarks as state of the art
false flag terrorism having had lots of previous practice, most notably
the Paris Charlie Hebdo edition. But the growing anomalies stacking up once again turn out to be no different from its predecessors.

Mastermind of Istanbul Airport Attack Had Been Georgian Informant, Official Says

Akhmed
Chatayev is blamed for planning the deadly attack in Turkey, and an
official says he was on the government payroll before returning to
jihad. Sometimes
the world of terror and counterterror is amazingly small. The day
after at least 43 people were killed and more than 235 injured in a
terrorist attack on Istanbul’s international airport, Turkish officials
announced the arrest of the alleged mastermind behind the attack: Akhmed
Chatayev, an ethnic Chechen from Russia who, in the past, had traveled
extensively in Ukraine, Austria and Georgia.

Here in the Black Sea port
of Odessa, in Ukraine, Police Chief Gen. Giorgi Lortkipanidze knows all
about Chatayev. The general used to be the deputy interior minister in
Georgia, and for a while, he says, had Chatayev on the government
payroll. “A few years ago I recruited Chatayev, who was a good informer
and negotiator between us and Islamist underground of the Northern
Caucasus; with his help we prevented several terrorist attacks on
Georgia,” Gen. Lortkipanidze told The Daily Beast in an exclusive
interview on Friday.

For more than a year, Lortkipanidze said, he was pleased with his
“recruiter and informant,“ Chatayev. “But then he turned against us and
we arrested him. In August of 2012, a group of radical militants was
going to cross [into Russia] from Georgia and Chatayev said he was
Muslim, he could not abandon his brothers“ by informing on them,
Lortkipanidze said. In Odessa, the day before we talked, Lortkipanidze
had deployed an significant number of security personnel to “prevent any
destabilization” there during protests to demand the return of public
court hearings. Tires burned and sirens wailed. Dozens of buff young men
in body armor lined up along the neoclassical white columns of the city
hall. Lortkipanidze said he suspected that there were terrorists
carrying illegal weapons in the crowd of protesters. Shows of force are
only one of the methods he has learned to use over the years. On Sept.
8, 2012, the general commanded the Georgian counter-terrorist division
that arrested Chatayev. But by then, the Chechen had learned how to game
the system.

The alleged mastermind of the Istanbul massacre was a Russian citizen
who had applied for refugee status in Austria. There, for several years,
Chatayev was a representative in Europe for Doku Umarov, the leader of
the Caucasus Emirate terrorist organization, according to the general.
Russia tried for years to extradite Chatayev. In 2010 he was briefly
under arrest in Ukraine but neither Ukraine nor Georgia—long hostile to
Russia’s secret services—would give him back to his home country.
International human rights defenders insisted that the Chatayev, a
veteran of the Chechen wars, was protected by the Geneva Convention. It
was one thing to grab a terrorist and another to keep him behind the
bars, the general said, “especially when politics get involved.”

Ilya
Rogachev, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for New
Challenges and Threats, has said that Chechen militants fighting with
the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria are not Russian citizens but Kists from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge.
In an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on January 16, parts
of which were transcribed by other Russian media outlets, Rogachev
blamed Georgia for the phenomenon of Chechen militants in Syria. The
Russian Foreign Ministry official said that Georgian Kists -- ethnic
Chechens from the Pankisi Gorge -- were "among the most prominent
warlords who have already proved themselves in IS." Rogachev did not
name these warlords but said they were "trained in Georgia, probably by
Georgian specialists, who in turn were taught by the Americans."

These comments -- perhaps surprisingly -- echo reports in Western news outlets,
which have placed Georgia's Pankisi Gorge under an intense media
spotlight, mostly because of the sudden rise to notice of IS's military
emir in Syria, Umar al-Shishani, who is from the Pankisi Gorge. While
Umar al-Shishani was a conscript in the Georgian Army, some news reports
have emphasized that he was possibly trained by officers who may have
been trained by Americans. The Foreign Ministry official echoed Chechen
leader Ramzan Kadyrov when he said that there were "not as many North
Caucasians with Russian passports in IS as it is acceptable to imagine."
Rogachev said that there were "Chechens from other countries, including
those who received asylum abroad" fighting with IS in Syria and Iraq.
In November, Chechnya's Kadyrov lashed out at the West over what he said
was a deliberate attempt to portray Chechens as terrorists in Syria.
Kadyrov said that the "overwhelming majority" of Chechens in Syria were "residents of Western countries who were born there or who left 20 years ago."

FBI Isn't Concerned That Egyptian Tourists Who Found NYC Bomb are Back Home in the Middle East

After
a full week of searching, sources at the FBI say that they have
confirmed the identities of two men who walked past a suitcase, took out
a pressure cooker bomb, and left with the bag during the New York City
and New Jersey terror bombings. The two men, whom the NYPD chief of
counterterrorism James Waters called “very, very lucky” because they
hadn't been blown up handling the bomb, are described as Egyptian
“tourists” who have gone back home. There was no indication that either
man knew the significance of the bag's contents.ABC News
also reports that its sources believe that both men, neither of whom
have been identified by name, work for an Egyptian airline. In addition,
the NYPD's Waters told CBS News that the two are considered witnesses rather than possible accomplices:“They’re not in any jeopardy of being arrested. We have no reason to believe they’re connected.” The
FBI says they were able to identify the two through surveillance
cameras and put photos of them last week. One man, Ahmad Rahami, has
been arrested and charged with the bombings that injured more than 30 people on September 17th. Rahami is charged
with detonating a pipe bomb in New Jersey and a pressure cooker bomb in
New York's Chelsea District. The pressure cooker bomb 'unpacked' by the
two Egyptian men was found four blocks away.

After a car bombing in southeastern Iran killed 11 Revolutionary Guard members in 2007, a C.I.A.
officer noticed something surprising in the agency’s files: an
intelligence report, filed ahead of the bombing, that had warned that
something big was about to happen in Iran. Though the report had
provided few specifics, the C.I.A. officer realized it meant that the
United States had known in advance that a Sunni terrorist group called
Jundallah was planning an operation inside Shiite-dominated Iran, two
former American officials familiar with the matter recalled. Just as
surprising was the source of the report. It had originated in Newark,
with a detective for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The
Port Authority police are responsible for patrolling bridges and
tunnels and issuing airport parking tickets. But the detective, a
hard-charging and occasionally brusque former ironworker named Thomas
McHale, was also a member of an F.B.I.
counterterrorism task force. He had traveled to Afghanistan and
Pakistan and developed informants inside Jundallah’s leadership, who
then came under the joint supervision of the F.B.I. and C.I.A.

Reading
the report, the C.I.A. officer became increasingly concerned. Agency
lawyers he consulted concluded that using Islamic militants to gather
intelligence — and obtaining information about attacks ahead of time —
could suggest tacit American support for terrorism. Without specific
approval from the president, the lawyers said, that could represent an
unauthorized covert action program. The C.I.A. ended its involvement
with Mr. McHale’s informants.

Despite
the C.I.A.’s concerns, American officials continued to obtain
intelligence from inside Jundallah, first through the F.B.I., and then
the Pentagon. Contacts with informants did not end when Jundallah’s
attacks led to the deaths of Iranian civilians, or when the State
Department designated it a terrorist organization. Senior Justice
Department and F.B.I. lawyers at the time say they never reviewed the
matter and were unaware of the C.I.A. concerns. And so the relationship
persisted, even as American officials repeatedly denied any connection
to the group.

The
unusual origins and the long-running nature of the United States’s
relationship with Jundallah are emblematic of the vast expansion of
intelligence operations since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
With counterterrorism a national priority, new players — the F.B.I., the
Pentagon, contractors and local task forces — have all entered the spy
business. The result is a sometimes-muddled system in which agencies
often operate independently and with little oversight.

“Every
agency wants to be involved in counterterrorism and intelligence now,”
said Representative Rush Holt, a New Jersey Democrat who sat on the
House Intelligence Committee and said he did not recall being briefed on
the Jundallah matter. “We have these Joint Terrorism Task Forces
everywhere, and there’s so many of these antiterrorism thrusts in our
bureaucracy. There’s so much more going on.”

The
C.I.A., the F.B.I., the Pentagon and the office of the director of
National Intelligence all declined to comment for this article. But more
than half a dozen current and former officials, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it,
confirmed both American involvement with Jundallah and the way it
evolved. Several current officials who discussed the operation played
down its significance, attributing it to lapses in oversight, rather
than a formal effort to ally with a terrorist group.

At
the center of the operation was Mr. McHale. Those who know him paint a
contradictory picture — someone whose skill in developing sources was
highly regarded by the F.B.I. but who bristled at the restrictions of
bureaucracy and whose dealings with Jundallah were conducted largely
“off book.” Mr. McHale, 53 and now retired from the Port Authority,
refused to comment. A high-school graduate from Jersey City, Mr. McHale
became a law enforcement celebrity after 9/11, helping to rescue
survivors and recover victims at ground zero, and playing himself in
Oliver Stone’s movie, “World Trade Center,” in which Nicolas Cage
starred as a Port Authority police officer.

His
work on Newark’s Joint Terrorism Task Force took him to Afghanistan and
Pakistan, where he helped capture leaders of Al Qaeda alongside F.B.I.
and C.I.A. colleagues. He received the Port Authority’s Medal of Honor
for bravery in 2006. “If there’s a new Greatest Generation, then McHale
would certainly define it,” The New York Post wrote in a 2011 profile.
But friends say he could be brash and opinionated, the kind of guy who,
if he thought your email was stupid, would immediately say so — and
copy your boss on the reply for good measure.

“Tommy is not without opinions, and he is generally happy to share them
with his colleagues and bosses,” said Don Borelli, a retired F.B.I.
counterterrorism supervisor who worked with Mr. McHale in Pakistan but
was not involved in the Jundallah matter. “As you can imagine, this has
ruffled some feathers, especially at the F.B.I. But when it hits the
fan, Tommy is the guy you want on your team working the case.”

Mr.
McHale was at home in the fast-paced culture that seemed particularly
frenetic after Sept. 11, 2001, when decisions were made and executed on
the fly in response to seemingly omnipresent terrorist threats. And
after 9/11, information about the Middle East was at a premium. As it
happened, Mr. McHale had a source, an informant who had been on the
F.B.I. payroll since about 1996, officials said. The informant lived in
the New York area, according to three former officials, but had friends
and family in Baluchistan, a sprawling region covering parts of Iran,
Afghanistan and Pakistan. The informant introduced Mr. McHale to these
overseas connections, which included members of the Rigi family, the
namesake of a powerful Baluch tribe based in southeastern Iran.

The
arrangement was promising enough that after 9/11 the informant became a
joint F.B.I. and C.I.A. asset, meaning he was supervised by both
agencies simultaneously, with Mr. McHale as the point person, officials
said. Southeastern Iran, where the Rigis are based, is the country’s
poorest region, a sparse, lawless area where water is scarce and life
expectancy is low. The Baluch people, who are mostly Sunni, have long
faced oppression at the hands of the Shiite government. Security forces
have demolished homes. Sunni leaders have been shot dead in the streets.

Against
that backdrop, a charismatic young member of the Rigi family,
Abdolmalek Rigi, founded Jundallah — the soldiers of God — to fight the
Iranian government in 2003. Its leadership drew heavily from the Rigis.
The United States would later estimate that Jundallah attracted 500 to
2,000 members, making it about the size of Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen.
But in its early years, the group received little attention in
Washington. And Mr. McHale’s relationship with the group did not raise
concerns, former officials say. In part, they say, that was because the
United States did not yet consider Jundallah a terrorist organization
and it had stated no intention to attack the West. But they say it was
also because one of the government’s leading experts on Baluchistan, and
the one most likely to spot the potential problem, was Mr. McHale
himself.

Brazen Attacks

Over
time, Jundallah grew more brazen. In 2005, its operatives ambushed
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s motorcade, failing to kill him. The
group was also blamed for a rapid series of attacks, including a
massacre at a checkpoint in 2006. The following year, Jundallah carried
out the car bombing on a bus full of Revolutionary Guard members.
The extent of the intelligence provided by Mr. McHale’s informant and
his overseas network of contacts could not be determined. But
Baluchistan serves as a hub for militant groups and smugglers who move
drugs, weapons and kidnapping victims across the porous borders of Iran,
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some Baluch fighters share ideological ties
with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the admitted
mastermind of 9/11, is an ethnic Baluch. Over the years, information
from Mr. McHale’s sources filled huge intelligence files, three
officials said.

It
is not illegal for government agents to use criminals or terrorists as
sources. Developing informants inside Al Qaeda has been a C.I.A.
preoccupation since 9/11. But the goal has always been to use those
informants to help dismantle Al Qaeda itself. In the case of Jundallah,
the objective was to obtain information, former officials said, not to
combat the group or stop its attacks. Current and former officials say
the American government never directed or approved any Jundallah
operations. And they say there was never a case when the United States
was told the timing and target of a terrorist attack yet took no action
to prevent it.

Documents
show Raymond Davis, an American who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in
January, had links with CIA's espionage and sabotage plans in the Asian
country. “The documents, photographs and the evidence that has come out
from Davis' sofa almost confirms his links with Taliban terrorism…the
attacks on ISI and the security establishment as well as the drone
attacks,” Pakistani defense analyst and security consultant Zaid Hamid
said in an interview with Press TV's US Desk on Saturday.

Hamid
added that there is evidence confirming Davis has been a US undercover
operative in Pakistan. “With this kind of evidence the issue is not just
the assassination of those two boys on the streets of Lahore but it is
an indication of a much larger network of CIA espionage and sabotage
inside Pakistan,” he said. Earlier, US President Barack Obama urged
Pakistan to free the US official saying he enjoys diplomatic immunity
under the Vienna Convention.

However,
under public pressure, Lahore High Court adjourned a decision on
whether Davis had diplomatic immunity. The court gave the foreign
ministry more time to answer on whether full diplomatic status was held
by Davis, who has been remanded in custody since his arrest following
the incident on January 27. Pakistani police have pressed charges of
espionage against Davis, saying he is an employee of the notorious US
security firm Xe/Blackwater, working in Pakistan under the cover of the
so-called war on terror.

An American man was found hanged in a jail cell on Sunday in a police
station near the banks of the Suez Canal. The man, identified by the
U.S. state department as 66-year-old James Lunn, had apparently
committed suicide. He had been arrested on August 29 for breaking the
curfew put in place amid the violent unrest that followed the military's
ousting of President Mohammed Morsi in early July. The
American embassy in Cairo confirmed the death to ABC News, saying he
died of "apparent suicide." The State Department also issued
confirmation of the death today, and said that his family has been
contacted. Egypt officials had identified Lunn as a retired U.S. Army
officer, but the U.S. State Department said Sunday that he was not a
veteran.

Lunn
was found after breakfast was served in the Ismailia police station,
hung from the bathroom door of his prison cell, Egypt's public
prosecutor said. A black belt wrapped around his neck was attached with
string to both his shoes, which were tangled up on the other side of the
door, according to the prosecutor. The statement said that blood was
seen coming from his nose and that he had already died when they found
him. His
body was then sent to the morgue at the main hospital in the city for
an autopsy. Egypt's public prosecutor has now ordered an official
investigation into the death. Lunn had been living alone in a town
called Sheikh Zuwayed in the northeast of the Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian
state news agency MENA reported at the time of his arrest. He was
reportedly on his way to the Palestinian Gaza Strip when he was arrested
for breaking the 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. curfew.

Lunn
had been arrested for breaking curfew in the Sheikh Zuweyid area, where
a terrorist operation was carried out targeting a police station with a
car bomb, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office.
Authorities found him in possession of an Egyptian map and an electronic
device that's currently being examined. A
consular team from the embassy had visited him at the jail last week
but the embassy declined to say what Lunn was doing in the Sinai, the
most violent part of the country. Since Morsi was deposed, the already
lawless Sinai has grown increasingly bloody. The ouster was followed by a
military and police crackdown and there have been almost daily attacks
against security targets by Islamic militants. On Friday, three soldiers
and one policeman were killed when a suicide bomber drove a car bomb
into a checkpoint.

Astana, Kazakhstan - Following the terrorist attack on September 11,
2001, I received documents marked "SECRET" from the files of the FBI's
Washington field office. The information in those files will make you
sick. Click through to get a free download of the film Bush Family Fortunes, which contains the fascinating background to this story.

When the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, I grabbed those FBI
files – and a plane for Kazakhstan, bullying cameraman Rocco D into
joining me. [Rocco, no fool, won't let me print his full name.] After we
landed, word came that two Kazakh teens, friends of the bombers, had
been arrested by Boston police and charged with hiding evidence of the
bombers' guilt. Here in Astana, Kazakhstan's capital, televisions
everywhere run endless loops of the bombs going off at the Boston
Marathon, the screams, the blood, the victims... and the questions.

And
first question: How do a couple of wholesome Call-of-Duty-playing
American kids get the idea they should murder and mangle their neighbors
to avenge the Muslims of Chechnya—whom the victims probably couldn't
find on a map? The second question: How did America's trillion-dollar
intelligence apparatchiks wave off warnings from Russia about one of the
bomber's connections to the Chechen militants?

The
answer regarding the intelligence failure is, to paraphrase the famous
journalist Yogi Berra: it's amazing what you don't see when you don't
look. And that's related to the how young Muslim-Americans came to kill
other young Americans over Chechnya. According to the secret memo, long
before the Boston bombing, even before the September 11 attack, the FBI
shut down an investigation of a group that ran a summer camp in Florida
for America's Muslim teenagers.

An American jihadist who set up the terrorist training camp where the
leader of the 2005 London suicide bombers learned how to manufacture
explosives, has been quietly released after serving only four and a half
years of a possible 70-year sentence, a Guardian investigation has
learned.

The unreported sentencing of Mohammed Junaid Babar
to "time served" because of what a New York judge described as
"exceptional co-operation" that began even before his arrest has raised
questions over whether Babar was a US informer at the time he was
helping to train the ringleader of the 7 July tube and bus bombings.
Lawyers representing the families of victims and survivors of the
attacks have compared the lenient treatment of Babar to the
controversial release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.

Babar was imprisoned in 2004 – although final sentencing was deferred –
after pleading guilty in a New York court to five counts of terrorism.
He set up the training camp in Pakistan where Mohammad Sidique Khan and
several other British terrorists learned about bomb-making and how to
use combat weapons. Babar admitted to being a dangerous terrorist who
consorted with some of the highest-ranking members of al-Qaida,
providing senior members with money and equipment, running weapons, and
planning two attempts to assassinate the former president of Pakistan,
General Pervez Musharraf.

But in a deal with prosecutors for the US attorney's office, Babar
agreed to plead guilty and become a government supergrass in return for a
drastically reduced sentence. The Guardian has obtained a court
document which shows that on 10 December last year – six years after his
initial arrest and subsequent guilty plea – he was sentenced to "time
served" and charged $500 (£310) by the court in a "special assessment"
fee. The document also reveals that Babar had by then spent just over
four years in some form of prison and more than two years free on bail.

Graham Foulkes, a magistrate whose 22-year-old son David was killed by
Khan at Edgware Road underground station in 2005, said: "People get four
and a half years for burglary. They can get more for some road traffic
offences. So for an international terrorist who's directly linked to the
death of my son and dozens and dozens of people to get that sentence is
just outrageous." Fifty-two people were killed and 784 injured on 7
July 2005 when four suicide bombers detonated rucksacks filled with
explosives and nails on London's transport system in the morning rush
hour.

The lawyer representing the families of the dead and survivors,
Clifford Tibber of the law firm Anthony Gold, said they would be
devastated to learn that Babar had served only a small proportion of his
possible sentence. "Babar admitted setting up and funding training
camps attended by the 7/7 bombers," Tibber said. "When the British
government released Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber who received a life
sentence, on compassionate grounds after eight years the Americans were
furious. Imagine how the bereaved and the survivors will feel about
[Babar's] paltry sentence."

The
following Reuters report raises some disturbing questions. Why were
undercover British “soldiers” wearing traditional Arab headscarves
firing at Iraqi police? The incident took place just prior to a major
religious event in Basra. The report suggests that the police thought
the British soldiers looked “suspicious”. What was the nature of their
mission? Occupation forces are supposesd to be collaborating with Iraqi
authorities. Why did Britsh Forces have to storm the prison using tanks
and armoured vehicles to liberate the British undercover agents?

“British
forces used up to 10 tanks ” supported by helicopters ” to smash
through the walls of the jail and free the two British servicemen.”

Was
there concern that the British “soldiers” who were being held by the
Iraqi National Guard would be obliged to reveal the nature and objective
of their undercover mission? A report of Al Jazeera TV, which preceeded
the raid on the prison, suggests that the British undercover soldiers
were driving a booby trapped car loaded with ammunition. The Al Jazeera
report (see below) also suggests that the riots directed against British
military presence were motivated because the British undercover
soldiers were planning to explode the booby trapped car in the centre of
Basra:

[Anchorman
Al-Habib al-Ghuraybi] We have with us on the telephone from Baghdad
Fattah al-Shaykh, member of the Iraqi National Assembly. What are the
details of and the facts surrounding this incident? [Al-Shaykh] In the
name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. There have been
continuous provocative acts since the day before yesterday by the
British forces against the peaceful sons of Basra. There have been
indiscriminate arrests, the most recent of which was the arrest of
Shaykh Ahmad al-Farqusi and two Basra citizens on the pretext that they
had carried out terrorist operations to kill US soldiers. This is a
baseless claim. This was confirmed to us by [name indistinct] the second
secretary at the British Embassy in Baghdad, when we met with him a
short while ago. He said that there is evidence on this. We say: You
should come up with this evidence or forget about this issue. If you
really want to look for truth, then we should resort to the Iraqi
justice away from the British provocations against the sons of Basra,
particularly what happened today when the sons of Basra caught two
non-Iraqis, who seem to be Britons and were in a car of the Cressida
type. It was a booby-trapped car laden with ammunition and was meant to
explode in the centre of the city of Basra in the popular market.
However, the sons of the city of Basra arrested them. They [the two
non-Iraqis] then fired at the people there and killed some of them. The
two arrested persons are now at the Intelligence Department in Basra,
and they were held by the National Guard force, but the British
occupation forces are still surrounding this department in an attempt to
absolve them of the crime. [Al-Ghuraybi] Thank you Fattah al-Shaykh,
member of the National Assembly and deputy for Basra. Text of report by
Qatari Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 19 September.

General Hamid Gul, the former head of the Pakistani ISI, told CNN
yesterday that both the Mumbai attacks and 9/11 were “inside jobs,” much
to the chagrin of host and CFR luminary Fareed Zakaria, who told
viewers that Gul’s opinions were “absolutely wrong and thoroughly
discredited”. “When you look at the full spectrum of possibilities, who
could have done it, then one knows that Samjhauta Express was a similar
case, in which Pakistan ISI was accused. But it turned out that it was
the militant Hindus themselves who had killed 68 passengers in that
train, and that it was an inside job,” said Gul.

“Now
Colonel Srikant Purohit, who is a serving army officer, he has been
caught in this particular case. And the whole thing has turned around.”
“So, obviously, there is an inside job.”

The
revelation that Mukhtar Ahmed, a “counterinsurgency police officer who
may have been on an undercover mission” working for Indian authorities
was arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the Mumbai gunmen, allied with the numerous intelligence warnings proving that the method, arrival and targets of attack were all known well in advance,
proves Gul right in his assertion that the terrorists could not have
achieved such carnage without help from people on the inside. Asked by
Zakaria, “What is your hunch as to who did – who perpetrated the 9/11
attacks?,” Gul responded, “Well, I have been on record, and I said it is
the Zionists or the neocons. They have done it. It was an inside job.”
“And they wanted to go on the world conquerors. They were looking upon
it as an opportunity window, when the Muslim world was lying prostrate.
Russia was nowhere in sight. China was still not an economic giant that
is has turned out to be.”

Less than a year before terrorists killed at least 163 people in
Mumbai, India, a young Moroccan woman went to American authorities in
Pakistan to warn them that she believed her husband, David C. Headley, was plotting an attack. It was not the first time American law enforcement authorities were
warned about Mr. Headley, a longtime informer in Pakistan for the
United States Drug Enforcement Administration
whose roots in Pakistan and the United States allowed him to move
easily in both worlds. Two years earlier, in 2005, an American woman
who was also married to
the 50-year-old Mr. Headley told federal investigators in New York that
she believed he was a member of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba created and sponsored by Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency.

Despite those warnings by two of his three wives, Mr. Headley roamed
far and wide on Lashkar’s behalf between 2002 and 2009, receiving
training in small-caliber weapons and countersurveillance, scouting
targets for attacks, and building a network of connections that
extended from Chicago to Pakistan’s lawless northwestern frontier. Then
in 2008, it was his handiwork as chief reconnaissance scout that
set the stage for Lashkar’s strike against Mumbai, an assault intended
to provoke a conflict between nuclear-armed adversaries, Pakistan and
India. An examination of Mr. Headley’s movements in the years before
the
bombing, based on interviews in Washington, Pakistan, India and
Morocco, shows that he had overlapping, even baffling, contacts among
seemingly disparate groups — Pakistani intelligence, terrorists, and
American drug investigators.

Those ties are rekindling concerns that the Mumbai bombings represent
another communications breakdown in the fight against terrorism, and
are raising the question of whether United States officials were
reluctant to dig deeper into Mr. Headley’s movements because he had
been an informant for the D.E.A. More significantly, they may indicate American wariness to pursue
evidence that some officials in Pakistan, its major ally in the war
against Al Qaeda, were involved in planning an attack that killed six Americans. The Pakistani government has insisted that its spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, a close partner of the C.I.A.,
did not know of the attack. The United States says it has no evidence
to counter this, though officials acknowledge that some current or
retired ISI officers probably played some role.

American authorities sent David C. Headley,
a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them in
Pakistan months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite a warning
that he sympathized with radical Islamic groups, according to court
records and interviews. Not long after Mr. Headley arrived there, he
began training with terrorists, eventually playing a key role in the
2008 attacks that left 164 people dead in Mumbai.

The October 2001
warning was dismissed, the authorities said, as the ire of a jilted
girlfriend and for lack of proof. Less than a month later, those
concerns did not come up when a federal court in New York granted Mr.
Headley an early release from probation so that he could be sent to work
for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration in Pakistan. It is unclear what Mr. Headley was supposed to do in Pakistan for the Americans.“All I knew was the D.E.A. wanted him in Pakistan as fast as possible
because they said they were close to making some big cases,” said Luis
Caso, Mr. Headley’s former probation officer.

On Sunday, while President Obama was visiting India, he briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
on the status of his administration’s investigation of Mr. Headley,
including the failure to act on repeated warnings that he might be a
terrorist. A senior United States official said the inquiry has
concluded that while the government received warnings, it did not have
strong enough evidence at the time to act on them. “Had the United
States government sufficiently established he was engaged in plotting a
terrorist attack in India, the information would have most assuredly
been transferred promptly to the Indian government,” the official said
in a statement to The New York Times. The statement did not make clear
whether any American agencies would be held accountable.

In recent weeks, United States government officials have begun to
acknowledge that Mr. Headley’s path from American informant to
transnational terrorist illustrates the breakdowns and miscommunications
that have bedeviled them since the Sept. 11 attacks. Warnings about his
radicalism were apparently not shared with the drug agency that made
use of his ties in Pakistan. The director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr.,
began an investigation into Mr. Headley’s government connections after
reports last month that two of the former drug dealer’s ex-wives had
gone to American authorities between 2005 and 2008, before the Mumbai
attacks, to say they feared he was plotting with terrorists. Combined
with the earlier warning from the former girlfriend, three of the women
in Mr. Headley’s life reported his ties to terrorists, only to have
those warnings dismissed.
An examination of Mr. Headley’s story shows that his government ties
ran far deeper and longer than previously known. One senior American
official knowledgeable about the case said he believed that Mr. Headley
was a D.E.A. informant until at least 2003, meaning that he was talking
to American agencies even as he was learning to deal with explosives and
small arms in terrorist training camps. The review raises new questions
about why the Americans missed warning signs that a valued informant
was becoming an important figure in radical Islamic groups, and whether
some officials chose to look the other way rather than believe the
complaints about him. The October 2001 warning from the girlfriend was
first reported Friday by ProPublica, the independent investigative news
operation, and published in The Washington Post.

Fuller details of how the government handled the matter were provided
to The Times by officials who did not want to be quoted discussing a
continuing inquiry. They disclosed that the F.B.I.
actually talked to Mr. Headley about the girlfriend, and he told them
she was unreliable. They said that while he seemed to have a
philosophical affinity for some groups, there was no evidence that he
was plotting against the United States. Also influencing the handling of
the case, they said, was that he had been a longtime informant. The
Indian government has been outspoken in its concerns that the United
States overlooked repeated warnings about Mr. Headley’s terrorist
activities because of his links to both American law enforcement as well
as to officials in Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate — a key ally of the United States in the fight against terrorism.

Bruce O. Riedel, a terrorism expert at the Brookings Institution and a former C.I.A.
officer, said the Indians were right to ask, “ ‘Why weren’t alarms
screaming?’ ”Mr. Headley, 50, born in the United States to a Pakistani
diplomat and Philadelphia socialite, has pleaded guilty in connection
with the Mumbai plot and a thwarted attack against a Danish newspaper
that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. As he has many times
before, he is cooperating with the authorities, this time hoping to
avoid the death penalty. Officials of the D.E.A., which has a long
history with Mr. Headley, declined to discuss their relationship with
him. The C.I.A. and the F.B.I. said that Mr. Headley had never worked
with them. Privately, the agencies point fingers at each other.

For
25 years, Ali al-Jarrah managed to live on both sides of the bitterest
divide running through this region. To friends and neighbors, he was an
earnest supporter of the Palestinian cause, an affable, white-haired
family man who worked as an administrator at a nearby school. To Israel,
he appears to have been a valued spy, sending reports and taking
clandestine photographs of Palestinian groups and Hezbollah since 1983.
Now he sits in a Lebanese prison cell, accused by the authorities of
betraying his country to an enemy state. Months after his arrest, his
friends and former colleagues are still in shock over the extent of his
deceptions: the carefully disguised trips abroad, the unexplained cash,
the secret second wife.

Lebanese investigators say he
has confessed to a career of espionage spectacular in its scope and
longevity, a real-life John le Carré novel. Many intelligence agents are
said to operate in the civil chaos of Lebanon, but Mr. Jarrah’s arrest
has shed a rare light onto a world of spying and subversion that usually
persists in secret. Mr. Jarrah’s first wife maintains that he was
tortured, and is innocent; requests to interview him were denied. From
his home in this Bekaa Valley village, Mr. Jarrah, 50, traveled often to
Syria and to south Lebanon, where he photographed roads and convoys
that might have been used to transport weapons to Hezbollah, the Shiite
militant group, investigators say. He spoke with his handlers by
satellite phone, receiving “dead drops” of money, cameras and listening
devices. Occasionally, on the pretext of a business trip, he traveled to
Belgium and Italy, received an Israeli passport, and flew to Israel,
where he was debriefed at length, investigators say.At the start
of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli officials called
Mr. Jarrah to reassure him that his village would be spared and that he
should stay at home, investigators said. He was finally arrested last
July by Hezbollah, which now has perhaps the most powerful intelligence
apparatus in this country. It handed him to the Lebanese military —
along with his brother Yusuf, who is accused of helping him spy — and he
awaits trial by a military court. Several current and former military
officials agreed to provide details about his case on condition of
anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss it before the
trial began. Their accounts tallied with details provided by Mr.
Jarrah’s relatives and former colleagues.It
is not the family’s first brush with notoriety. One of Mr. Jarrah’s
cousins, Ziad al-Jarrah, was among the 19 hijackers who carried out the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, though the men were 20 years apart
in age and do not appear to have known each other well.

In the days of hysteria immediately following the Boston bombing, an
unlikely media darling emerged. Ruslan Tsarni, the alleged bombers’
uncle, known to the press as “Uncle Ruslan,” gained notoriety for the ferocity
with which he denounced his own nephews and their alleged Islamic
radicalism. It isn’t hard to see why the press focused so closely on
“Uncle Ruslan.” He said precisely what the so-called “authorities”
wanted to hear about the suspects in precisely the way they wanted to
hear it. Compare this to the coverage of the boys’ mother in the
mainstream media. After revealing the FBI’s connection to the Tsarnaev brothers—causing the Bureau to reluctantly confirm
that they had investigated Tamerlan in the past—she has been
alternatively smeared and dismissed by those same media outlets which
have refused to delve into the FBI connection.

But even more interesting than the sudden popularity of “Uncle Ruslan”
is his background and ties to other organizations. In an official SEC filing
from 2005 it was revealed that Ruslan Tsarni had worked as a consultant
for USAID, ostensibly an independent federal agency which is little
more than an adjunct of the US State Department and is a known front
for deep cover CIA agents in various geostrategic corners of the globe.
At the same time in the mid-1990s, Tsarni incorporated a company called
the “Congress of Chechen International Organizations” which recently unearthed documents show was providing material support to Chechen terrorists, including Sheikh Fathi, who, according
to US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, was a “military commander in the
violent jihadist movement in Chechnya” and a “preacher of violent
jihad.”

As investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker has demonstrated,
the address for the Congress of Chechen International Organizations
just happened to be the home address of Graham E. Fuller, formerly Vice
Chairman of the Reagan-era CIA’s National Intelligence Council. The
relationship between Ruslan and this former top CIA official was not a
loose one. Tsarni married Fuller’s daughter in the mid-1990s and lived
in Fuller’s home for some time, basing his terror-supporting operation
under Fuller’s own roof. Fuller himself has an interesting background
that includes his two decade stint with the Central Intelligence Agency.
During that time he served as National Intelligence Officer for Near
East and South Asia. One of his most notorious acts during that time was
penning a memo that, according to the New York Times, later became the basis for the Iran-Contra scandal.

In
addition, Fuller has long made the argument that Islam is a potentially
useful geopolitical tool for the United States to manipulate for their
own ends. He has been quoted
as saying, “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping
them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan
against [the Russians]. The same doctrines can still be used to
destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the
Chinese influence in Central Asia.”

On
April 26 Russia’s main national TV station, Rossiya 1, featured
President Vladimir Putin in a documentary to the Russian people on the
events of the recent period including the annexation of Crimea, the US
coup d’etat in Ukraine, and the general state of relations with the
United States and the EU. His words were frank. And in the middle of his
remarks the Russian former KGB chief dropped a political bombshell that
was known by Russian intelligence two decades ago.

Putin stated
bluntly that in his view the West would only be content in having a
Russia weak, suffering and begging from the West, something clearly the
Russian character is not disposed to. Then a short way into his remarks,
the Russian President stated for the first time publicly something that
Russian intelligence has known for almost two decades but kept silent
until now, most probably in hopes of an era of better normalized
Russia-US relations.

Putin stated that the terror in Chechnya and
in the Russian Caucasus in the early 1990’s was actively backed by the
CIA and western Intelligence services to deliberately weaken Russia. He
noted that the Russian FSB foreign intelligence had documentation of the
US covert role without giving details.

What Putin, an
intelligence professional of the highest order, only hinted at in his
remarks, I have documented in detail from non-Russian sources. The
report has enormous implications to reveal to the world the
long-standing hidden agenda of influential circles in Washington to
destroy Russia as a functioning sovereign state, an agenda which
includes the neo-nazi coup d’etat in Ukraine and severe financial
sanction warfare against Moscow. The following is drawn on my book, “The
Lost Hegemon” to be published soon…

CIA’s Chechen Wars

Not
long after the CIA and Saudi Intelligence-financed Mujahideen had
devastated Afghanistan at the end of the 1980’s, forcing the exit of the
Soviet Army in 1989, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself
some months later, the CIA began to look at possible places in the
collapsing Soviet Union where their trained “Afghan Arabs” could be
redeployed to further destabilize Russian influence over the post-Soviet
Eurasian space.

They were called Afghan Arabs because they had
been recruited from ultraconservative Wahhabite Sunni Muslims from Saudi
Arabia, the Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Arab world
where the ultra-strict Wahhabite Islam was practiced. They were brought
to Afghanistan in the early 1980’s by a Saudi CIA recruit who had been
sent to Afghanistan named Osama bin Laden.

With the former Soviet
Union in total chaos and disarray, George H.W. Bush’s Administration
decided to “kick ‘em when they’re down,” a sad error. Washington
redeployed their Afghan veteran terrorists to bring chaos and
destabilize all of Central Asia, even into the Russian Federation
itself, then in a deep and traumatic crisis during the economic collapse
of the Yeltsin era.

In the early 1990s, Dick Cheney’s company,
Halliburton, had surveyed the offshore oil potentials of Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, and the entire Caspian Sea Basin. They estimated the region
to be “another Saudi Arabia” worth several trillion dollars on today’s
market. The US and UK were determined to keep that oil bonanza from
Russian control by all means. The first target of Washington was to
stage a coup in Azerbaijan against elected president Abulfaz Elchibey to
install a President more friendly to a US-controlled
Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, “the world’s most political
pipeline,” bringing Baku oil from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey
and the Mediterranean.

At
that time, the only existing oil pipeline from Baku was a Soviet era
Russian pipeline that ran through the Chechen capital, Grozny, taking
Baku oil north via Russia’s Dagestan province, and across Chechenya to
the Black Sea Russian port of Novorossiysk. The pipeline was the only
competition and major obstacle to the very costly alternative route of
Washington and the British and US oil majors.

President
Bush Sr. gave his old friends at CIA the mandate to destroy that
Russian Chechen pipeline and create such chaos in the Caucasus that no
Western or Russian company would consider using the Grozny Russian oil
pipeline.

Graham E. Fuller, an old colleague of Bush and former
Deputy Director of the CIA National Council on Intelligence had been a
key architect of the CIA Mujahideen strategy. Fuller described the CIA
strategy in the Caucasus in the early 1990s: “The policy of guiding the
evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked
marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The same doctrines
can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power.”6

The
CIA used a dirty tricks veteran, General Richard Secord, for the
operation. Secord created a CIA front company, MEGA Oil. Secord had been
convicted in the 1980s for his central role in the CIA’s Iran-Contra
illegal arms and drugs operations.

In
1991 Secord, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, landed in
Baku and set up the CIA front company, MEGA Oil. He was a veteran of the
CIA covert opium operations in Laos during the Vietnam War. In
Azerbaijan, he setup an airline to secretly fly hundreds of bin Laden’s
al-Qaeda Mujahideen from Afghanistan into Azerbaijan. By 1993, MEGA Oil
had recruited and armed 2,000 Mujahideen, converting Baku into a base
for Caucasus-wide Mujahideen terrorist operations.

General
Secord’s covert Mujahideen operation in the Caucasus initiated the
military coup that toppled elected president Abulfaz Elchibey that year
and installed Heydar Aliyev, a more pliable US puppet. A secret Turkish
intelligence report leaked to the Sunday Times of London confirmed that
“two petrol giants, BP and Amoco, British and American respectively,
which together form the AIOC (Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium),
are behind the coup d’état.”

Saudi Intelligence head, Turki
al-Faisal, arranged that his agent, Osama bin Laden, whom he had sent to
Afghanistan at the start of the Afghan war in the early 1980s, would
use his Afghan organization Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) to recruit “Afghan
Arabs” for what was rapidly becoming a global Jihad. Bin Laden’s
mercenaries were used as shock troops by the Pentagon and CIA to
coordinate and support Muslim offensives not only Azerbaijan but also in
Chechnya and, later, Bosnia.

Bin Laden brought in another Saudi,
Ibn al-Khattab, to become Commander, or Emir of Jihadist Mujahideen in
Chechnya (sic!) together with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. No matter
that Ibn al-Khattab was a Saudi Arab who spoke barely a word of Chechen,
let alone, Russian. He knew what Russian soldiers looked like and how
to kill them.

Chechnya then was traditionally a predominantly
Sufi society, a mild apolitical branch of Islam. Yet the increasing
infiltration of the well-financed and well-trained US-sponsored
Mujahideen terrorists preaching Jihad or Holy War against Russians
transformed the initially reformist Chechen resistance movement. They
spread al-Qaeda’s hardline Islamist ideology across the Caucasus. Under
Secord’s guidance, Mujahideen terrorist operations had also quickly
extended into neighboring Dagestan and Chechnya, turning Baku into a
shipping point for Afghan heroin to the Chechen mafia.

From
the mid-1990s, bin Laden paid Chechen guerrilla leaders Shamil Basayev
and Omar ibn al-Khattab the handsome sum of several million dollars per
month, a King’s fortune in economically desolate Chechnya in the 1990s,
enabling them to sideline the moderate Chechen majority.21 US
intelligence remained deeply involved in the Chechen conflict until the
end of the 1990s. According to Yossef Bodansky, then Director of the US
Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare,
Washington was actively involved in “yet another anti-Russian jihad,
seeking to support and empower the most virulent anti-Western Islamist
forces.” Bodansky revealed the entire CIA Caucasus strategy in detail in
his report, stating that US Government officials participated in,

“a
formal meeting in Azerbaijan in December 1999 in which specific
programs for the training and equipping of Mujahideen from the Caucasus,
Central/South Asia and the Arab world were discussed and agreed upon,
culminating in Washington’s tacit encouragement of both Muslim allies
(mainly Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia) and US ‘private security
companies’. . . to assist the Chechens and their Islamist allies to
surge in the spring of 2000 and sustain the ensuing Jihad for a long
time…Islamist Jihad in the Caucasus as a way to deprive Russia of a
viable pipeline route through spiraling violence and terrorism.”

The
most intense phase of the Chechen wars wound down in 2000 only after
heavy Russian military action defeated the Islamists. It was a pyrrhic
victory, costing a massive toll in human life and destruction of entire
cities. The exact death toll from the CIA-instigated Chechen conflict is
unknown. Unofficial estimates ranged from 25,000 to 50,000 dead or
missing, mostly civilians. Russian casualties were near 11,000 according
to the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers. The Anglo-American oil majors
and the CIA’s operatives were happy. They had what they wanted: their
Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan oil pipeline, bypassing Russia’s Grozny pipeline.
The Chechen Jihadists, under the Islamic command of Shamil Basayev,
continued guerrilla attacks in and outside Chechnya. The CIA had
refocused into the Caucasus.

Basayev’s Saudi Connection

Basayev was a key part of the CIA’s Global Jihad. In 1992, he met Saudi terrorist Ibn al-Khattag in Azerbaijan.
From Azerbaijan, Ibn al-Khattab brought Basayev to Afghanistan to meet
al-Khattab’s ally, fellow-Saudi Osama bin Laden. Ibn al-Khattab’s role
was to recruit Chechen Muslims willing to wage Jihad against Russian
forces in Chechnya on behalf of the covert CIA strategy of destabilizing
post-Soviet Russia and securing British-US control over Caspian energy.

Once
back in Chechnya, Basayev and al-Khattab created the International
Islamic Brigade (IIB) with Saudi Intelligence money, approved by the CIA
and coordinated through the liaison of Saudi Washington Ambassador and
Bush family intimate Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Bandar, Saudi Washington
Ambassador for more than two decades, was so intimate with the Bush
family that George W. Bush referred to the playboy Saudi Ambassador as
“Bandar Bush,” a kind of honorary family member.

Basayev and
al-Khattab imported fighters from the Saudi fanatical Wahhabite strain
of Sunni Islam into Chechnya. Ibn al-Khattab commanded what were called
the “Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya,” his own private army of Arabs, Turks,
and other foreign fighters. He was also commissioned to set up
paramilitary training camps in the Caucasus Mountains of Chechnya that
trained Chechens and Muslims from the North Caucasian Russian republics
and from Central Asia.

The
Saudi and CIA-financed Islamic International Brigade was responsible
not only for terror in Chechnya. They carried out the October 2002
Moscow Dubrovka Theatre hostage seizure and the gruesome September 2004
Beslan school massacre. In 2010, the UN Security Council published the
following report on al-Khattab and Basayev’s International Islamic
Brigade:

Islamic
International Brigade (IIB) was listed on 4 March 2003. . . as being
associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for
“participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or
perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the
name of, on behalf or in support of” Al-Qaida. . . The Islamic
International Brigade (IIB) was founded and led by Shamil Salmanovich
Basayev (deceased) and is linked to the Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance
and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM). . . and the Special
Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR). . .

The Boston Bombings and the CIA Connection. Graham Fuller and Uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev

One of the many unexplained (at least not officially) anomalies of the persons claimed to have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings is the presence of key CIA figure in the direct family of the accused brothers. Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. Fuller until 2004. Samantha’s father is Graham Fuller, the senior CIA person who was the architect the Afghan Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen war against the Soviets. He is also involved in creating a global jihad network, presumably acting on behalf of CIA interests.

Ruslan Tsarnaev, who changed his name to Ruslan Tsarni, lives in a posh Washington DC suburb of Bethesda Maryland. He has worked in the past for companies tied to Dick Cheney’s Halliburton as well as a “consultant” in Kazakhstan with the State Department’s USAID which has been identified as a CIA front.[1]

Take it all in: The two brothers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, accused though never proven in a court of law to have been responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings, had an uncle, the same uncle who agreed to bury the remains of the one dead brother. This uncle was married to the daughter of Graham Fuller, one of the most important CIA architects of using Islamic Jihadists/terrorists against the USSR during the Cold War and after, throughout Central Asia, including Chechnya and Kazakhstan. Coincidence?

The Fuller CIA Link

The discovery of the connection between a very senior CIA official, Graham Fuller, to the uncle of the accused Boston bombers was more than a bit embarrassing for Fuller. He took what for a professional CIA agent was an extraordinary step of issuing a public denial. In an exclusive interview on what reportedly is a CIA-linked website, “Back Channel—Al-Monitor,” Fuller hurriedly denounced media links of his CIA connection to the bombers’ uncle: “…possible connections between Ruslan and the Agency through me are absurd.” [2] Fuller then went on to admit, “Samantha was married to Ruslan Tsarnaev (Tsarni) for 3-4 years…They also lived in our house in [Maryland] for a year or so…” [3]

Fuller went on to claim Ruslan was “homesick” for Chechnya, and that his English was “shaky,” yet after the Boston bombings, a very English-fluent Ruslan gave a press conference from his posh Maryland home denouncing his nephews.

The central question is who is Graham Fuller? The answer turns out to be that he was one of the most instrumental people inside the CIA during the 1980’s who convinced CIA Director Bill Casey and the Reagan Administration to recruit fundamentalist Muslim Salafists or Jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and elsewhere, train them in techniques of guerilla insurgency and send them against the Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. They were called Mujahideen.[4] One of the more famous of those Mujahideen was a young Saudi from a very wealthy family named Osama bin Laden.

I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani
pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chechens
being responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings because he’s never
seen any indication that Chechen extremists harbored animosity toward
the U.S.; Guiliani thought they were only focused on Russia. Giuliani
knows full well how the Chechen “terrorists” proved useful to the U.S.
in keeping pressure on the Russians, much as the Afghan mujahedeen were
used in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989. In fact,
many neocons signed up as Chechnya’s “friends,” including former CIA
Director James Woolsey.

“They include Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott
Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to
the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be ‘a
cakewalk’; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of
the rightwing Heritage Foundation; Frank Gaffney of the militarist
Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military
intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin, now
president of the US Committee on Nato; Michael Ledeen of the American
Enterprise Institute, a former admirer of Italian fascism and now a
leading proponent of regime change in Iran; and R. James Woolsey, the
former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George
Bush’s plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines.”

Evidence is mounting that the accused dead Boston Marathon bomber
Tamerlan Tsarnaev became a “radicalized” Muslim while participating in a
covert CIA program, run through the Republic of Georgia, to destabilize
Russia’s North Caucasus region. The ultimate goal of the CIA’s campaign
was for the Muslim inhabitants of the region to declare independence
from Moscow and tilt toward the U.S. Wahhabi Muslim-run governments of
Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Russia’s Izvestia is reporting that Tsarnaev
attended seminars run by the Caucasus Fund of Georgia, a group
affiliated with the neo-conservative think tank, the Jamestown
Foundation, between January and July 2012.

The U.S. media has been reporting that during this six month time frame
Tsarnaev was being radicalized by Dagestan radical imam “Abu Dudzhan,”
killed in a fight with Russian security last year. However, in documents
leaked by the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs’s
Counterintelligence Department, Tsarnaev is pinpointed as being in
Tbilisi taking part in “seminars” organized by the Caucasus Fund,
founded during the Georgian-South Ossetian war of 2008, a war started
when Georgian troops invaded the pro-Russian Republic of South Ossetia
during the Beijing Olympics. Georgia was supported by the United States
and Israel, including U.S. Special Forces advisers. The Georgian
intelligence documents indicate Tsarnaev attended the Jamestown seminars
in Tbilisi.

Tsarnaev
also visited Dagestan in 2011. On December 16, 2011, WMR reported on
the CIA’s and George Soros’s operations in Georgia that funded the
Caucasus Fund, the Jamestown Foundation, and U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) activities. It should also be noted
that Tsarnaev’s Maryland-based uncle, Ruslan Tsarni (name changed from
Tsarnaev) was also contracted to USAID.

“The
money from USAID for Russian dissidents is being funneled through the
Georgian Ministry of Education. The Georgian Minister of Education
Dmitry Shashkin also attended the Tbilisi ceremony (a World AIDS Day
ceremony also attended by U.S. ambassador to Georgia John Bass and
Georgia First Lady Sandra Roloefs, the Dutch wife of Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili), which provided cover for the covert aid program to
the Russian dissidents. USAID money was used to fund scholarships in
Georgia for exiled Chechen “students” who were being trained as CIA
agenst to interface with Chechen guerrilla forces and the Caucasus
Emirate terrorists of Doku Umarov.

Meet “the Most Dangerous Islamist on Planet Earth” He lives in Pennsylvania

The latest documents from Wikileaks shows growing concern among U. S.
officials over Fethullah Gulen’s attempts to create a New Islamic World
and the “braining washing of students” that takes place at his charter
schools within the United States and throughout the Muslim world. The
cable that speaks of the “brain-washing” was written in 2009 by James
Jeffrey, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey.

In the cable, Mr. Jeffrey describes Gülen as a “political phenomena” in
Turkey even when he resides “in exile” within a mountain fortress in
Pennsylvania. He says the Gülen movement has gained control of Turkey’s
government and dictates Turkish policy which has become increasing
anti-Israeli and anti-American. It points out that the leaders of the
Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma or AKP) who now govern
Turkey, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President
Abdullah Gul, appear to serve as Gulen’s puppets.

Other newly released cables state that Gulen’s disciples now direct the
country’s 200,000 strong police force - - a force that remains in
conflict with the military, which sees the group as an enemy. In recent
months, Turkish military leaders, and other critics of the AKP, have
been arrested in the dead of night and whisked off to detention cells.
According to NurettinVeren, who served as Fethullah Gulen’s right-hand
man “There are imam security directors; imams wearing police uniforms.
Many police commissioners get their orders from imams.”

“It is not possible to confirm the Turkish police are under the control
of the Gülen community members, but we have not met anybody who denies
it,” one cable said.

The most dangerous Islamist on planet earth

Gulen has been labeled “the most dangerous Islamist on planet earth,”
although he has failed to attract the attention of U. S.
counter-terrorism experts and the national media. Gülen is a student and
follower of Sheikh Sa’id-i Kurdi (1878-1960), also known as Sa’id-i
Nursi, the founder of the Islamist Nur (light) movement. After Turkey’s
war of independence, Kurdi demanded, in an address to the new
parliament, that the new republic be based on Islamic principles. Kurdi
turned against Atatürk and his reforms and against the new modern,
secular, Western republic and Gulen has followed his militant mentor’s
example. Hailed as an outstanding educator by Graham Fuller and other
CIA officials, the reclusive Gulen is semi-literate and lacks a high
school diploma. In 1999, he was driven from his native Turkey because of
his attempts to overthrow the secular Turkish government.

"Contractors" at Boston Marathon Stood Near Bomb, Left Before Detonation

Image: An already widely distributed photo showing the
contractor-types on the bottom left, just left of where the bomb was
placed and detonated. The men are wearing matching, unmarked uniforms,
large black bags, and appear to be waiting, separately, and "behind" the
rest of the crowd. In the upper left corner, a wooden structure forming
one half of a temporary photography "bridge" over the finish line can
be seen and serves as a useful reference when establishing the
contractor-types' position in other photos.

What appear to be private contractors, wearing unmarked, matching
uniforms and operating an unmarked SUV affixed with communication
equipment near the finish line of the Boston Marathon shortly after the
bomb blasts - can be seen beforehand, standing and waiting just meters
away from where the first bomb was detonated. The contractor-types had
moved away from the bomb's location before it detonated, and could be
seen just across the street using communication equipment and waiting
for similar dressed and equipped individuals to show up after the
blasts.

The men, numbering between 6-8 then begin tearing up the skirting around
temporary bleachers erected for the event, opposite the explosion,
before taping it off. Then, what appears to be an FBI bomb squad truck
pulls up directly behind the contractor-types' SUV, with a woman clearly
wearing the letters F.B.I. on her tactical vest emerging and speaking
with the contractor-types. Together they disappear from the scene,
leaving their vehicles behind.

It should be noted, that with the exception of the contractor-types, all
other responders at the scene, including the FBI agent, can be clearly
identified, from police to the fire department, to medics and even
individuals wearing vests with "B.A.A. Physician" written on them. It
should also be noted that no other uniformed individuals can be seen
standing near the bomb site aside from the contractor-types. These men were unidentified, professional contractors apparently
augmenting public servants at the Boston Marathon, present before and
after the bomb blasts in the direct vicinity of the incident. After the
blasts, whether it was their intended function or not, they appeared to
be searching for something under the bleachers before being joined by
what appears to be the FBI bomb squad. The FBI and the city of Boston
has so far categorically failed to provide any information on these
highly suspicious individuals.

As the FBI reels from what now appears to be revelations it was directly involved in the Boston Marathon bombings,
a deluge of FBI "success" stories have been "serendipitously" splashed
across Western headlines. Among them was an allegedly "foiled" terror
attack in Canada, reported to be the work of terrorists supported by
"Al-Qaeda operatives in Iran."

"To many, it came as a surprise that the RCMP is alleging that two
terror suspects arrested in Canada on Monday were supported by al-Qaeda
operatives in Iran. The Sunni-based al-Qaeda and Shia Iran belong to
different branches of Islam that have been at odds historically. But in
recent years U.S. officials have formally alleged that Iran has allowed
al-Qaeda members to operate out of its territory."

Both at face
value and upon deeper examination, this assertion is utterly absurd,
divorced from reality, and indicative of the absolute contempt within
which the Western establishment holds the global public. In reality, the
West, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel in particular, have propped up
and perpetuated Al Qaeda for the very purpose of either undermining or
overthrowing the governments of Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria,
Libya, Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and beyond. Regarding Iran in
particular, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007
New Yorker piece titled, "The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" would state:

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush
Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in
the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with
Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations
that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is
backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations
aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has
been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant
vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

The
Administration may have been willing to rely on dissident organizations
in Iran even when there was reason to believe that the groups had
operated against American interests in the past. The use of Baluchi
elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C.I.A.
clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and
the Middle East, told me. “The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who
hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda,”
Baer told me. “These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelievers—in
this case, it’s Shiite Iranians. The irony is that we’re once again
working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we did in Afghanistan in the
nineteen-eighties.” Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the
1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who
is considered one of the leading planners of the September 11th
attacks, are Baluchi Sunni fundamentalists.

The report would continue by stating (emphasis added):

One
of the most active and violent anti-regime groups in Iran today is the
Jundallah, also known as the Iranian People’s Resistance Movement, which
describes itself as a resistance force fighting for the rights of
Sunnis in Iran. “This is a vicious Salafi organization whose followers
attended the same madrassas as the Taliban and Pakistani extremists,”
Nasr told me. “They are suspected of having links to Al Qaeda and they
are also thought to be tied to the drug culture.” The Jundallah took
responsibility for the bombing of a busload of Revolutionary Guard
soldiers in February, 2007. At least eleven Guard members were killed.
According to Baer and to press reports, the Jundallah is among the
groups in Iran that are benefitting from U.S. support.

The manifestation of this insidious conspiracy can be seen playing out across Syria in which US-backed terrorists openly operating under the flag of Al Qaeda
are locked in a catastrophic sectarian bloodbath with the Syrian people
and the Syrian state's closest ally, Iran. The conflict in Syria
exposes that the machinations revealed back in 2007-2008 by Hersh, are
still being carried out in earnest today.

An extremist Muslim cleric, Abu Qatada, once known as late Osama bin
Laden’s aide, has been released from a British jail, Western and Arab
media reported on Tuesday. Qatada, who fled to Britain in 1993, was
released on bail from the Long Lartin high-security prison in central
England late on Monday, Al Arabiya said.

According to the BBC, the
British government said that Qatada, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin,
was a threat to UK national security. The European Court on Human Rights
however ruled not to extradite the cleric to Jordan where he received a
life sentence in absentia in 1999 for plotting terrorist attacks as he
may be subjected to torture. A spokeswoman for the British Home Office
told AFP that Britain “was united” in getting Qatada deported.“This
government will exhaust all avenues open to get Qatada on a plane. If
we do so, we will continue to negotiate with the Jordanians to see what
assurances we can be given about the evidence used against Qatada in
their court,” AFP quoted the spokeswoman as saying.

Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture
list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon
within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has
learned. Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI
interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state
that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military’s
outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the
attacks.

The incident was flagged by a current Defense Department employee who
came forward and told investigators she helped arrange the meeting after
she saw Awlaki speak in Alexandria, Va. The employee "attended this
talk and while she arrived late she recalls being impressed by this
imam. He condemned Al Qaeda
and the terrorist attacks. During his talk he was 'harassed' by members
of the audience and suffered it well," reads one document.

According
to the documents, obtained as part of an ongoing investigation by the
specials unit "Fox News Reporting," there was a push within the Defense
Department to reach out to the Muslim community. "At that period in
time, the secretary of the Army (redacted) was eager to have a
presentation from a moderate Muslim." In addition, Awlaki "was
considered to be an 'up and coming' member of the Islamic community.
After her vetting, Aulaqi (Awlaki) was invited to and attended a
luncheon at the Pentagon in the secretary of the Army's Office of
Government Counsel."

The Disaster That Bill Clinton Created In Bosnia By Backing Muslims Against The Serbs

Two
decades later Bosnia is still suffering the consequences. ISIS has
declared the Balkans the next front for the Islamic Caliphate, and in
remote mountain villages, Muslims are already flying the ISIS flag.

The Balkans is the latest arena where the West is trying to circumcise
any attempt of Russia to regainits influence. This anti-Serbian
resolution and initiative is the part of the broader strategy and the
latest Western attempt to demonize Serbs and delegitimize pro-Russian
Republic of Srpska (Serbian part of Bosnia) in an effort to forcefully
centralize Bosnia and give the driving seat to Bosnian Muslims. So,
the West is working to portray the Bosnian Serb republic in Bosnia as a
“genocidal entity/creation”, further weakening the already weak Serbian
position in the Balkans and by proxy strengthening the Albanian regime
in Kosovo and pushing Montenegro towards NATO membership.

Going
back to the Srebrenica case, this is a Srebrenica fact sheet one can
rarely see in biased western MSM reports: It has been recorded that more
that 3,200 Serbian women, children, elderly, men and prisoners of war
were massacred in Serbian villages around Srebrenica between 1992 and
1995 by soldiers on the Bosnian Muslim side based in Srebrenica. Muslim
forces under Naser Oric “engaged in attacks during Orthodox (Christian)
holidays and destroyed villages, massacring all the inhabitants. This
created a degree of hatred that was quite extraordinary in the region.” This was the first of many Srebrenica massacres by Muslims that are ignored by the West up to this day. Before the Srebrenica Massacre: Genocide Jihad In the Balkans!

The
number of 8,000 Muslim victims in Srebrenica is inflated. Most of
“7,000 Muslim men and boys” allegedly murdered were soldiers of the
localy-formed 28th division of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina under Naser Oric.
They died both as soldiers and as war prisoners, they were killed in
combat and others as revenge for Bosnian Serb victims. In all 5,500
Muslim soldiers fought under Naser Oric.

Most
of them were killed when after the fall of the Muslim-controlled
Srebrenica enclave they refused to surrender, but instead performed a
desperate fighting withdrawal over Serbian controlled territories. Along
the way they were shelled and ambushed by Serb foces in what was uneven
combat but was not a massacre of civilians.

Edward S. Herman, a
Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of
“The Srebrenica Massacre: Evidence, Context and Politics” characterized “Srebrenica genocide” as a gigantic political fraud and a myth built by West.
Thanks to anti-Serbian propaganda one can only hear stories about
genocide, the “biggest massacre after Holocaust”, “8,000 innocent muslim
men and boys” etc. Fortunately, many western citizens no longer take
Western mainstream media propaganda for granted as they did in 90’s and
they are new alternative media which are breaking the monopoly of the
western mainstream media.

Former chief NSA analyst: “Most of the Muslims killed in Srebrenica were soldiers who refused to surrender.”

Unlike
the Bosnian Muslim forces, the Bosnian Serb forces didn’t kill any of
Srebrenica women, children and older people but instead bused them out
to the main territory controlled by the Bosnian Muslim forces. During
the debate in the UN Security council neo-con and US ambassador to the
UN Samantha Power whined: ‘What’s next? Holocaust denial?’ In this way,
Mrs. Power insulted the victims of Holocaust comparing a hoax civilian
massacre in Srebrenica with the Nazi genocide against Jews and Slavs in
WW2.[...]

Bosnian
Muslim Army troops of the Al-Qaeda linked El Mujahedeen Unit parade in
downtown Zenica in central Bosnia in 1995, carrying the black flag of
Islamic jihad. Ossama Bin Laden played a key role in the 1992-1995
Bosnian civil war. Alija Izetbegovic not only issued him a Bosnian
passport through the Bosnian Embassy in Vienna in 1993, but met with him
at least on one occasion in Sarajevo in November, 1994. Bin Laden came
to Bosnia at least two times. Bin Laden organized the recruitment of
Arab-Afghan mujadeheen “volunteers” for Bosnia. He also used Islamic
front organizations and charities to funnel money to the Bosnian Muslim
regime and army.

More importantly, according to many prominent anti-terror experts,
Bosnia was the “guidebook” for Al-Qaeda. Bosnia was where Al-Qaeda was
forged in the fires of Islamic jihad. In Against All Enemies: Inside
America’s War on Terror (NY: Free Press, 2004), Richard A. Clarke, who
was the anti-terror czar in the George W. Bush Administration, a
security and counter-terrorism advisor to three U.S. Presidents, wrote:

“What we saw unfold in Bosnia was a guidebook to the Bin Laden network,
though we didn’t recognize it as such at the time. Beginning in 1992,
Arabs who had been former Afghan mujahedeen began to arrive. With them
came the arrangers, the money men, logisticians, and ‘charities.’ They
arranged front companies and banking networks. As they had done in
Afghanistan, the Arabs created their own brigade, allegedly part of the
Bosnian army but operating on its own. The muj, as they came to be
known, were fierce fighters against the better-armed Serbs. They engaged
in ghastly torture, murder, and mutilation that seemed excessive even
by Balkan standards.”

The funding and recruitment of the mujahedeen to Bosnia was organized
by Bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda network: “Bosnian President Alija
Izetbegovic decided to take aid where he could… Better yet, al Qaeda
sent men, trained, tough fighters. European and U.S. intelligence
services began to trace the funding and support of the muj to bin Laden
in Sudan, and to facilities that had already been established by the muj
in Western Europe itself.”

The Afghan-Arab mujahedeen force in Bosnia was engaged in an “al Qaeda
jihad”: “Although Western intelligence agencies never labeled the muj
activity in Bosnia an al Qaeda jihad, it is now clear that is exactly
what it was.” Clarke noted that “[m]any of the names that we first
encountered in Bosnia showed up later in other roles, working for al
Qaeda.” These included:

1) Abu al-Makki, who was seen in the December, 2001 video standing next
to bin Laden “as al Qaeda’s leader extolled the September 11 attacks”;

2) Abu al-Haili, who was arrested in Morocco in 2002 for planning to attack U.S. ships;

3) Ali al-Shamrani, who was arrested by Saudi police for attacking the U.S. military aid mission in 1995;

4) Khalil Deek, arrested in 1999 for planning attacks against U.S. installations in Jordan;

5) Fateh Kamel, part of the Millennium Plot cell in Canada;

6) Khalid Almihdhar, 9/11 hijacker fought in Bosnia; and,

7) Nawaf Alhazmi, 9/11 hijacker fought in the Bosnian civil war.

Bosnian Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic, lower right, meeting with
Al-Qaeda linked Arab-Afghan mujahedeen in Bosnia. One of the hijackers
of the second attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001,
possessed a Bosnian passport. Senior Al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed was granted Bosnian citizenship in November, 1995. He is
allegedly the mastermind and planner of the 9/11 terrorist attacks
against the U.S. Mohammed was born in Kuwait to a family from the
Baluchi region of Pakistan. He went to Bosnia in September, 1995. He
went in the guise of a Muslim “humanitarian aid worker” for an Islamic
charity front organization called Egyptian Relief, a front for the
radical Muslim Brotherhood of Cairo.

How Kosovo was turned into fertile ground for ISIS under the watchful eyes of the US

Every
Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a
cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to
pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture
store. The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government
money and blamed for spreading Wahhabism — the conservative ideology
dominant in Saudi Arabia — in the 17 years since an American-led
intervention wrested tiny Kosovo from Serbian oppression. Since then —
much of that time under the watch of American officials — Saudi money
and influence have transformed this once-tolerant Muslim society at the
hem of Europe into a font of Islamic extremism and a pipeline for
jihadists.

Kosovo
now finds itself, like the rest of Europe, fending off the threat of
radical Islam. Over the last two years, the police have identified 314
Kosovars — including two suicide bombers, 44 women and 28 children — who
have gone abroad to join the Islamic State, the highest number per
capita in Europe. They were radicalized and recruited, Kosovo
investigators say, by a corps of extremist clerics and secretive
associations funded by Saudi Arabia and other conservative Arab gulf
states using an obscure, labyrinthine network of donations from
charities, private individuals and government ministries.

“They
promoted political Islam,” said Fatos Makolli, the director of Kosovo’s
counterterrorism police. “They spent a lot of money to promote it
through different programs mainly with young, vulnerable people, and
they brought in a lot of Wahhabi and Salafi literature. They brought
these people closer to radical political Islam, which resulted in their
radicalization.”

After
two years of investigations, the police have charged 67 people,
arrested 14 imams and shut down 19 Muslim organizations for acting
against the Constitution, inciting hatred and recruiting for terrorism.
The most recent sentences, which included a 10-year prison term, were
handed down on Friday. It is a stunning turnabout for a land of 1.8
million people that not long ago was among the most pro-American Muslim
societies in the world. Americans were welcomed as liberators after
leading months of NATO bombing in 1999 that spawned an independent
Kosovo.

WikiLeaks
cables, independent analysts and reporters have all identified
supporters of Islamist causes among the opposition to Col Gaddafi's
regime, particularly in the towns of Benghazi and Dernah. An al-Qaeda
leader of Libyan
origin, Abu Yahya al-Libi, released a statement backing the
insurrection a week ago, while Yusuf Qaradawi, the Qatar-based, Muslim
Brotherhood-linked theologian issued a fatwa authorising Col Gaddafi's
military entourage to assassinate him.

But they also agree that the leading roles in the revolution are played by a similar cross-section of society as that in Egypt
next door – liberals, nationalists, those with personal experience of
regime brutality and Islamists who subscribe to democratic principles.
The WikiLeaks cables, initially revealed by The Daily Telegraph and
dating from 2008, identified Dernah in particular as a breeding ground
for fighters in a number of causes, including Afghanistan and Iraq.

"The unemployed, disfranchised young men of eastern Libya have nothing
to lose and are therefore willing to sacrifice themselves for something
greater than themselves by engaging in extremism in the name of
religion," the cables quoted a Dernah businessman as saying. Col Gaddafi has pinpointed the rebels in Dernah as being led by an al-Qaeda
cell that has declared the town an Islamic emirate. The regime also
casts blame on hundreds of members of the Libyan Islamist Fighting Group
released since the group renounced violence two years ago.

Although said by the regime to be affiliated to al-Qaeda, most LIFG
members have focused only on promoting sharia law in Libya, rejecting a
worldwide "jihad". The man running Dernah's defences, Abdelkarim
al-Hasadi, was arrested by US forces in Afghanistan in 2002, but says he
does not support a Taliban-like state. The rebels' political leadership
there says it is secular. The same goes for the wider leadership, whose
membership claims to espouse largely liberal ideals.

The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States recruited over
1,500 men from Mazar-e-Sharif for fighting against the Qaddafi forces in
Libya. Sources told The Nation: “Most of the men have been recruited
from Afghanistan. They are Uzbeks, Persians and Hazaras. According to
the footage, these men attired in Uzbek-style of shalwar and
Hazara-Uzbek Kurta were found fighting in Libyan cities.”

When
Al-Jazeera reporter pointed it he was disallowed by the ‘rebels ‘to
capture images. Sources in Quetta said: “Some Uzbeks and Hazaras from
Afghanistan were arrested in Balochistan for illegally traveling into
Pakistan en route to Libya through Iran. Aljazeera’s report gave
credence to this story. More than 60 Afghans, mainly children and
teenagers, have been found dead after suffocating inside a shipping
container in southwestern Pakistan in an apparent human smuggling
attempt.

More than 100 illegal immigrants were discovered 20km
from the border town of Quetta last week inside the container, which had
been locked from the outside. Aljazeera having dubious record gave
human touch to this story as most of the men who intruded inside
Pakistan from Afghanistan were recruits for Libyan Rebels’ Force. The
sources said: “The CIA funded Libyan Rebels with cash and weapons.” In a
report the New York Mayor’s TV Channel Bloomberg said, “Leaders of the
Libyan rebels’ Transitional National Council flew to Istanbul seeking
legitimacy and money. They will leave with the official recognition of
the US and 31 other nations. As for the cash, they will have to wait.

The Western media has played a central role in obfuscating the nature
of foreign interference in Syria including outside support to armed
insurgents. In chorus they have described recent events in Syria as a
"peaceful protest movement" directed against the government of Bashar Al
Assad. Recent developments in Syria point to a full-fledged armed
insurgency, integrated by Islamist "freedom fighters", supported,
trained and equipped by NATO and Turkey's High Command. According to
Israeli intelligence sources:

NATO
headquarters in Brussels and the Turkish high command are meanwhile
drawing up plans for their first military step in Syria, which is to arm
the rebels with weapons for combating the tanks and helicopters
spearheading the Assad regime's crackdown on dissent. Instead of
repeating the Libyan model of air strikes, NATO strategists are thinking
more in terms of pouring large quantities of anti-tank and anti-air
rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns into the protest centers for
beating back the government armored forces. (DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011)

The delivery of weapons to the rebels is to be implemented "overland,
namely through Turkey and under Turkish army
protection....Alternatively, the arms would be trucked into Syria under
Turkish military guard and transferred to rebel leaders at pre-arranged
rendez-vous." NATO and the Turkish High command,
also contemplate the development of a jihad involving the recruitment of
thousands of freedom fighters, reminiscent of the enlistment of
Mujahideen to wage the CIA's jihad (holy war) in the heyday of the
Soviet-Afghan war: Also discussed in Brussels and Ankara, our sources report, is a
campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East
countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels. The
Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure their
passage into Syria.

The U.S.-led attack on Libya is an American operation of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), planned and initiated long before any
“protests” started in Libya this February. Under the guise of
“protecting innocent civilians,” the U.S. military, Africom, NATO, and
the United Nations are now bombing Libya, raining destruction upon the
Libyan economic and military infrastructure and killing untold numbers
of innocent Africans. Here are just 10 of the many obvious reasons why
this so-called “spontaneous” protest was from beginning to end another
CIA operation.

1. The United States' motives are suspect. The “humanitarian” concern
expressed by the American government has not taken long to evaporate.
The claim that Col. Muammar Gadhafi
was “slaughtering his own people” cannot be substantiated by any
independent evidence, and no “journalists” are even asking for evidence.
The White House's policy advisor and Israeli lobby official Dennis Ross
claimed that “up to 100,000 people could be massacred, and everyone
would blame us for it.” Ross has produced no proof of a massacre—and
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen both confirmed, “We've seen no confirmation whatsoever.” Russian military has been monitoring the unrest via satellite from the very beginning, and they say that the claimed “slaughter” is imaginary. CIA √

2. The world media have shown a shocking lack of curiosity. Just as
with the U.S. debacle in Iraq and Afghanistan, the New York Times leads a
coordinated campaign of propaganda, rumor-mongering, and the
demonization of Muammar Gadhafi.
Some articles appear to be written in advance and closely follow the
prescription of the Washington consulting firm Wirthlin Group, which
determined that “the message most likely to motivate public support for
war on Iraq was the perception of Saddam Hussein as an evil madman who
even committed atrocities against his own people and had to be stopped.”
The major media's appetite for this “killing-his-own-people” line is
textbook CIA propaganda and belies the fact that they are at this very
hour operating from a swank hotel that is under Gadhafi's total control
in Tripoli. Even though they continue to spread unsubstantiated “rapes”
and “cluster bombings,” and “fears of massacres,” and child-targeting,
these “journalists” don't appear to be frightened for their lives. CIA √

3. The “rebels” are Al-Qaeda. When Col. Gadhafi first claimed that the
rebels were members of Al-Qaeda, no one believed him. But according to a 2007 report from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
titled “Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters In Iraq,” eastern Libya—the very
center of the current uprising—is a well-known Al-Qaeda stronghold. The
same people the U.S. is fighting three wars to destroy are the “rebels”
the U.S. is protecting, supplying, training, and attempting to install
into power in Libya. And if the West Point military analysts knew this
to be true in 2007, why did they not bomb those Al-Qaeda strongholds in
the way they are bombing Gadhafi's forces now? CIA √

4. Rebel “leaders” are CIA agents. The “rebel” leader, a man named Khalifa Hifter,
left the Libyan government and set up his own militia financed by the
CIA. He then spent two decades living within minutes of CIA headquarters
in Langley, Virginia, where, according to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, he had
no apparent source of income. Shortly after the 2011 “protests” began,
the CIA airlifted him into Benghazi and told the press to start calling
him the “leader” of the rebels. CIA √

5. The Libyan uprising is not “spontaneous.”The incident that allegedly
spurred the Libyan “rebellion” was the arrest of an activist lawyer on
February 15, 2011. This ignited a wave of protests that spilled over
onto the Internet and other media. But an unusually large number of YOUTUBE videos and TWITTER messages
have emerged that are suspiciously similar and seem to be a product of
the Pentagon's recently uncovered project to develop software that
allows it to secretly manipulate social media sites to influence
Internet conversations and spread propaganda. These suspicious “free
Libya” sites all claim to be homegrown, but YOUTUBE and other social
media sites cannot be accessed by Internet users in Libya. The
“revolution” websites are all in English even though the language of
Libya is Arabic, with English rarely spoken and only in the big cities.
Despite their dubious origins, professional media groups like CNN, BBC,
NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News, and Al Jazeera have amplified these anonymous
and uncorroborated video postings as legitimate news sources. And some of the “spontaneous” websites are clearly fraudulent. One that calls itself “LIBYAN REVOLUTIONARY CENTRAL” (http://www.feb17.info/)
was created on February 14—A DAY BEFORE the original protest. And the
website is registered in Ohio as a non-profit organization with a 501c3
tax exempt ID number! CIA √

6a. Whites are desperate for Libyan oil. America and Europe are
dependent on the type of oil that is only found in Libya. It is a very
high quality “sweet” oil with low sulfur content. Europe's refineries
cannot process other types of high sulfur oil, so when Gadhafi recently
suggested he could find better customers for Libyan oil in India, China,
and Russia, it made Europe desperate for an immediate Libyan
“uprising.” CIA √

6b. New oil infrastructure already in place. Only days after the
“spontaneous” protests the “rebels,” who were mostly seen in grainy cell
phone videos chanting slogans and waving banners, had organized
themselves into a sophisticated corporate entity and announced their
formation and launching of the “Libyan Oil Company” to supervise oil
production for all of Libya, and their creation of the “Central Bank of
Benghazi” as a monetary authority. The French government instantaneously
recognized these new business entities formed by “the rebels” even
though it was still publicly wondering who the rebel leaders were. CIA √

7. CIA history in Libya. The CIA has a LONG documented history
of attempts to overthrow Col. Gadhafi. At least four major CIA
operations, some in partnership with the Israeli Mossad, have been
conducted since 1972. Gadhafi's use of oil revenues to organize and
uplift Africa from its colonial destruction is EXACTLY the opposite of
America's foreign policy, which has always sought to strip Africa of its
raw resources to enrich the multinational corporations. Col. Gadhafi
has invested billions of dollars in projects to help emerging African
countries become independent. He has worked to establish a “United
States of Africa”—an effort to unite Africa to finally overcome the
damage caused by centuries of European colonialism. It was Gadhafi who
drove the African Union's efforts toward a single African Parliament, a
single currency, and a single army. The CIA has no other function than
to stop this kind of Black unity and progress. CIA √

8. Libyan invasion planned prior to 9/11. In a 2007 filmed interview,
4-star United States Army Gen. Wesley Clark discussed a Pentagon memo
under Donald Rumsfeld that, in his words, “describes how we're going to
take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then
Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” CIA √

9. The U.S. companies in Libya are invisible. Many U.S. corporations
that have been, are now, and will continue to do business in Libya are
UNDER NO PRESSURE to leave or “give back” their profits, or alter their
business activity with Gadhafi's so-called “murderous regime.”
Curiously, they have achieved a status different from that of The Hon.
Min. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, which also had a business
relationship with Libya—but for comparatively infinitesimal sums. The
U.S. companies in Libya whose Libyan business arrangements have yet to
be questioned are many, and include: Chevron Oil Conoco Phillips Hess Corporation Marathon Oil Corporation
Occidental Petroleum Sheraton Hotels Exxon Mobil Dow Chemical
Halliburton Raytheon Motorola Four Seasons Hotels Shell OilUnited Gulf
Construction Valmont, and White and Case Marriott Hotels
Intercontinental Hotels

In reality, the CIA works for the multinational corporations to tenaciously protect their world interests. CIA√
10. Rape is charged. A distraught, English-speaking, Arab woman
fortuitously finds her way from days of gang rape by Gadhafi's soldiers
into the only hotel in Tripoli where foreign journalists are encamped
(apparently dropped off by her tormentors) where she reports of her
ordeal to the gathered media who immediately, unquestioningly, broadcast
the brutal crime to the world as proven fact. She claimed that she was
detained at a checkpoint, tied up, abused, then led away to be gang
raped—all whilst her assailants were defending Tripoli against a Western
bombing campaign. “They defecated and urinated on me and tied me up,”
she said, her face streaming with tears. “They violated my honor, look
at what the Gadhafi militiamen did to me.”

Everybody who heard this woman's claims—except 100 percent of the
Western media—immediately remembered October 1990, when a sobbing
15-year-old Kuwaiti girl gave unsworn testimony in a Congressional
hearing chaired by Zionist congressman Thomas Lantos in which she
described what she saw in a Kuwaiti hospital with her own eyes: “While I
was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns,
and go into the room where … babies were in incubators. They took the
babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies
on the cold floor to die.”

The girl was actually the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador, and had
been coached by the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton to give
false testimony. Three months passed between the hearing and the start
of the first Gulf War during which the fabricated incubator story was
repeated over and over again by seven U.S. senators and ten times by
President G.H.W. Bush himself. It was recited as fact in congressional
testimony, on TV and radio talk shows like Nightline, and at the UN
Security Council. It is cited as the single most persuasive reason that
the American public backed the first Iraq War. None of those involved
with the hoax have ever faced legal reprisals. CIA √

The number ten is arbitrary, and does not represent the full extent of
possibly the most brazen CIA overthrow attempt in their long and
murderous history. That which drives the entire Western industrial
infrastructure—petroleum oil—is the only thing on the minds of the
charlatan leaders of the West, and the world watches in horrified awe as
each blunder they make is exposed to the light in almost real time. The
poor Libyan people and their revolutionary African champion Muammar
Gadhafi are under severe assault by the very same people who only
yesterday assured him he was their partner and friend. It is a
6,000-year-old history of tricks and deceptions that The Most Honorable
Elijah Muhammad taught us about, and it has now run its course and is
bringing a well-deserved demise to Western rule.

In
an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi
admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in
eastern Libya
to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are
"today are on the front lines in Adjabiya". Mr al-Hasidi insisted his
fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that
the "members of al-Qaeda
are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".

His
revelations came even as Idriss Deby Itno, Chad's president, said
al-Qaeda had managed to pillage military arsenals in the Libyan rebel
zone and acquired arms, "including surface-to-air missiles, which were
then smuggled into their sanctuaries".

Mr al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against "the foreign invasion" in Afghanistan, before being "captured in 2002 in Peshwar, in Pakistan".
He was later handed over to the US, and then held in Libya before being
released in 2008. US and British government sources said Mr al-Hasidi
was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which killed
dozens of Libyan troops in guerrilla attacks around Derna and Benghazi
in 1995 and 1996.

Even though the LIFG is not part of the al-Qaeda
organisation, the United States military's West Point academy has said
the two share an "increasingly co-operative relationship". In 2007,
documents captured by allied forces from the town of Sinjar, showed LIFG
emmbers made up the second-largest cohort of foreign fighters in Iraq,
after Saudi Arabia.

For more than five years, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu was a prisoner at the Guantánamo Bay prison, judged “a probable member of Al Qaeda”
by the analysts there. They concluded in a newly disclosed 2005
assessment that his release would represent a “medium to high risk, as
he is likely to pose a threat to the U.S., its interests and allies.”
Today, Mr. Qumu, 51, is a notable figure in the Libyan rebels’ fight to
oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi,
reportedly a leader of a ragtag band of fighters known as the Darnah
Brigade for his birthplace, this shabby port town of 100,000 people in
northeast Libya. The former enemy and prisoner of the United States is
now an ally of sorts, a remarkable turnabout resulting from shifting
American policies rather than any obvious change in Mr. Qumu.

He was a tank driver in the Libyan Army in the 1980s, when the Central Intelligence Agency
was spending billions to support religious militants trying to drive
Soviet troops out of Afghanistan. Mr. Qumu moved to Afghanistan in the
early 1990s, just as Osama bin Laden
and other former mujahedeen were violently turning against their former
benefactor, the United States. He was captured in Pakistan after the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, accused of being a member of the
militant Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, and sent to Guantánamo — in part
because of information provided by Colonel Qaddafi’s government.

“The Libyan Government considers detainee a ‘dangerous man with no
qualms about committing terrorist acts,’ ” says the classified 2005
assessment, evidently quoting Libyan intelligence findings, which was
obtained by The New York Times. “ ‘He was known as one of the extremist
commanders of the Afghan Arabs,’ ” the Libyan information continues,
referring to Arab fighters who remained in Afghanistan after the
anti-Soviet jihad.

When that Guantánamo assessment was written, the United States was
working closely with Colonel Qaddafi’s intelligence service against
terrorism. Now, the United States is a leader of the international
coalition trying to oust Colonel Qaddafi — and is backing with air power
the rebels, including Mr. Qumu. The classified Guantánamo assessment of
Mr. Qumu claims that he suffered from “a non-specific personality
disorder” and recounted — again citing the Libyan government as its
source — a history of drug addiction and drug dealing and accusations of
murder and armed assault.

In 1993, the document asserts, Mr. Qumu escaped from a Libyan prison,
fled to Egypt and went on to Afghanistan, training at a camp run by Mr.
bin Laden. At Guantánamo, Mr. Qumu denied knowledge of terrorist
activities. He said he feared being returned to Libya, where he faced
criminal charges, and asked to go to some other country where “You (the
United States) can watch me,” according to a hearing summary.
Nonetheless, in 2007, he was sent from Guantánamo to Libya and released
the next year in an amnesty for militants.

Abdel-Hakim Belhaj is an emerging hero of the Libyan uprising, the man
who led the Tripoli Brigade that swept into the capital and captured the
fortified compound that was Moammar Gadhafi's seat of power. He's also
the former leader of an Islamic militant group who says he was tortured
by CIA agents at a secret prison. Belhaj, the rebels' commander in
Tripoli, said Friday that the U.S. wrongly lumped him in with terrorists
after Sept. 11, but that he holds no grudge.

He said he shares the
West's goal of a free Libya. "We call and hope for a civil country that
is ruled by the law which we were not allowed to enjoy under Gadhafi,"
he told The Associated Press. "The identity of the country will be left
up to the people to choose."

He was not always so inclusive. In a
1996 statement he wrote as leader of the now-dissolved Libyan Islamic
Fighting Group, Belhaj wrote a statement vowing to fight "all the
deviant groups that call for democracy or fight for the sake of it."
Though Belhaj and many others who resisted Gadhafi for decades
considered their fight an Islamic cause, both secular and religious
Libyans took part in the uprising that led to Gadhafi's downfall.
Secular Libyans and the West are hoping Belhaj's actions match what he
told the Libyan people minutes after arriving at Gadhafi's Bab
al-Aziziya compound Aug. 23.

Syrian rebel leader supported by the West admits he fights alongside Al-Qaeda

Western-backed rebel leader, Jamal Maarouf, has admitted that the fighting against Al-Qaeda was “not our problem” and that his group is battling alongside the terrorist organization. Maarouf told The Independent that his group, the Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF), carries out joint operations with Jabhat Al-Nusra – the official Al-Qaeda branch in Syria.

“It’s clear that I’m not fighting against Al-Qaeda. This is a problem outside of Syria’s border, so it’s not our problem. I don’t have a problem with anyone who fights against the regime inside Syria,” Maarouf said to the media outlet. The SRF leader even provided examples of the ways his group was helping Al-Qaeda. “If the people who support us tell us to send weapons to another group, we send them. They asked us a month ago to send weapons to Yabroud so we sent a lot of weapons there. When they ask us to do this, we do it.”

Maarouf’s brigades were previously viewed as moderate among rebel forces that are more and more dominated by radical militants. Plus, the SRF was allegedly receiving significant aid from the US and other Western allies to battle the extremist forces. However, Maarouf denies getting strong support from the US, saying there was a one-time $250,000 payment for salaries and benefits of a shared operations room in Jordan to fight the Southern Front.

An al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan
in 2002 was at the same time working for British intelligence,
according to secret files on detainees who were shipped to the US
military's Guantánamo Bay prison camp.

Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili,
an Algerian citizen described as a "facilitator, courier, kidnapper,
and assassin for al-Qaida", was detained in Pakistan in 2003 and later
sent to Guantánamo Bay. But according to Hamlili's Guantánamo
"assessment" file, one of 759 individual dossiers obtained by the
Guardian, US interrogators were convinced that he was simultaneously
acting as an informer for British and Canadian intelligence.

After his capture in June 2003 Hamlili was transferred to Bagram
detention centre, north of Kabul, where he underwent numerous "custodial
interviews" with CIA personnel. They found him "to have withheld
important information from the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service and
British Secret Intelligence Service … and to be a threat to US and
allied personnel in Afghanistan and Pakistan". The Guardian and the New
York Times published a series of reports based on the leaked cache of
documents which exposed the flimsy grounds on which many detainees were
transferred to the camp and portrayed a system focused overwhelmingly on
extracting intelligence from prisoners. A further series of reports
based on the files reveal:

• A single star informer at the base won his freedom by incriminating at least 123 other prisoners
there. The US military source described Mohammed Basardah as an
"invaluable" source who had shown "exceptional co-operation", but
lawyers for other inmates claim his evidence is unreliable. • US
interrogators frequently clashed over the handling of detainees,
with members of the Joint Task Force Guantánamo (JTF GTMO) in several
cases overruling recommendations by the Criminal Investigative Task
Force (CITF) that prisoners should be released. CITF investigators also
disapproved of methods adopted by the JTF's military interrogators. •
New light on how Osama bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora
as American and British special forces closed in on his mountain refuge
in December 2001, including intelligence claiming that a local
Pakistani warlord provided fighters to guide him to safety in the
north-east of Afghanistan.

The Obama administration on Monday condemned the release of documents
which it claimed had been "obtained illegally by WikiLeaks". The
Pentagon's press secretary, Geoff Morrell, said in many cases the
documents, so-called Detainee Assessment Briefs, had been superseded by
the decisions of a taskforce established by President Barack Obama in
2009. "Any given DAB illegally obtained and released by WikiLeaks may or
may not represent the current view of a given detainee," he said.

According to the files, Hamlili told his American interrogators at
Bagram that he had been running a carpet business from Peshawar,
exporting as far afield as Dubai following the 9/11 attacks. But his CIA
captors knew the Algerian had been an informant for MI6 and Canada's
Secret Intelligence Service for over three years – and suspected he had
been double-crossing handlers. According to US intelligence the two spy
agencies recruited Hamlili as a "humint" – human intelligence – source
in December 2000 "because of his connections to members of various
al-Qaida linked terrorist groups that operated in Afghanistan and
Pakistan".

In
January, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the
assault by a local militia in September 2012 on the American consulate
and a nearby undercover CIA facility in Benghazi, which resulted in the
death of the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three others. The
report’s criticism of the State Department for not providing adequate
security at the consulate, and of the intelligence community for not
alerting the US military to the presence of a CIA outpost in the area,
received front-page coverage and revived animosities in Washington, with
Republicans accusing Obama and Hillary Clinton of a cover-up.

That’s the part you’ve heard about: failure to protect the personnel at the embassy. But then Hersh breaks the deeper story wide open:

A
highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a
secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan
administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the
agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar;
the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from
Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up
in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American
soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were
hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David
Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known
he was having an affair with his biographer. (A spokesperson for
Petraeus denied the operation ever took place.)

The
operation had not been disclosed at the time it was set up to the
congressional intelligence committees and the congressional leadership,
as required by law since the 1970s. The involvement of MI6 enabled the
CIA to evade the law by classifying the mission as a liaison operation.
The former intelligence official explained that for years there has been
a recognised exception in the law that permits the CIA not to report
liaison activity to Congress, which would otherwise be owed a finding.
(All proposed CIA covert operations must be described in a written
document, known as a ‘finding’, submitted to the senior leadership of
Congress for approval.) Distribution of the annex was limited to the
staff aides who wrote the report and to the eight ranking members of
Congress – the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and
Senate, and the Democratic and Republicans leaders on the House and
Senate intelligence committees. This hardly constituted a genuine
attempt at oversight: the eight leaders are not known to gather together
to raise questions or discuss the secret information they receive. The
annex didn’t tell the whole story of what happened in Benghazi before
the attack, nor did it explain why the American consulate was attacked.
‘The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of
arms,’ the former intelligence official, who has read the annex, said.
‘It had no real political role.’

Americans rise in rank within Somalia jihadi militant group linked to al-Qaida

The October al-Qaida video shows a light-skinned man handing out food
to families displaced by famine in Somalia. But the masked man is not
Somali, or even African — he’s a Wisconsin native who grew up in San
Diego. A handful of young Muslims from the U.S. are taking high-visibility
propaganda and operational roles inside an al-Qaida-linked insurgent
force in Somalia known as al-Shabab. While most are from Minnesota,
which has the largest Somali population in the nation, al-Shabab members
include a Californian and an Alabaman with no ancestral ties to
Somalia.

“They are being deployed in roles that appear to be
shrewdly calculated to raise al-Shabab’s international profile and to
recruit others, especially those from the United States and other
English-speaking countries,” said Anders Folk, a former assistant U.S.
attorney who prosecuted suspected al-Shabab supporters in Minnesota. Officials
fear another terrorist attack in East Africa. Kenya announced on Jan. 7
that it had thwarted attempted al-Shabab attacks over the holidays. The
same day, Britain’s Foreign Office urged Britons in Kenya to be extra
vigilant, warning that terrorists there may be “in the final stages of
planning attacks.”

More than 40 people have traveled from the U.S.
to Somalia to join al-Shabab since 2007, and 15 of them have died,
according to a report from the House Homeland Security Committee.
Federal investigations into al-Shabab recruitment in the U.S. have
centered on Minnesota, which has more than 32,000 Somalis.

In his response to my article
on the connections between a number of potential Trump Cabinet nominees
and the Iranian organization known as the Mujahidin e-Khalq (MEK),
Robert Torricelli does what the group’s supporters always do: He
rewrites history, and then smears the group’s critics.

With one MEK supporter already tapped to be a Cabinet secretary (Elaine Chao
at Transportation); several others, including John Bolton and Fran
Townsend, still in discussion for senior jobs in a Trump administration;
and a fourth, Newt Gingrich, taking the self-described role of “chief
planner,” the character of the MEK and, by extension, its well-paid
supporters matters. Let’s
start with the revisionist history. Torricelli, a former congressman
and senator and for many years the MEK’s lawyer, denounces my assertions
about the group’s violent past as outrageous and contends that he “has
seen no evidence to support the assertion Benjamin makes that it took
part in terrorist activities against Iranians or Americans.”

But
there’s plenty of evidence out there. For decades, and based on U.S.
intelligence, the United States government has blamed the MEK for
killing three U.S. Army colonels and three U.S. contractors, bombing the
facilities of numerous U.S. companies and killing innocent Iranians.
Multiple administrations have rejected efforts by the MEK and its
surrogates to claim that any bad acts were the result of what Torricelli
calls “a Marxist group” that briefly ran the MEK while other leaders,
who later rejected this cabal, were in prison.

A
Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly
guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by
American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources
tell ABC News.

The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the
Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan,
just across the border from Iran. It has taken responsibility for the
deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and
officials. U.S. officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundullah is
arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would
require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as
congressional oversight.

Tribal sources tell ABC News that money
for Jundullah is funneled to its youthful leader, Abd el Malik Regi,
through Iranian exiles who have connections with European and Gulf
states. Jundullah has produced its own videos showing Iranian soldiers
and border guards it says it has captured and brought back to Pakistan.
The leader, Regi, claims to have personally executed some of the
Iranians. "He used to fight with the Taliban. He's part drug smuggler,
part Taliban, part Sunni activist," said Alexis Debat, a senior fellow
on counterterrorism at the Nixon Center and an ABC News consultant who
recently met with Pakistani officials and tribal members.

"Regi is
essentially commanding a force of several hundred guerrilla fighters
that stage attacks across the border into Iran on Iranian military
officers, Iranian intelligence officers, kidnapping them, executing them
on camera," Debat said.

A former detainee at Guantanamo Bay has become the Taliban's chief operations officer in southern Afghanistan. The former detainee, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, was captured in Afghanistan in December of 2001 and transferred to Afghanistan six years later in December of 2007. His internment serial number (ISN) at Guantanamo was 8, a comparatively low number indicating that he was most likely one of the first detainees transferred from Afghanistan to Guantanamo after the facility was opened in 2002.

Rasoul currently operates in southern Afghanistan using the nom de guerre Mullah Abdullah Zakir, according to an account by the Associated Press. The AP cites "Pentagon and intelligence officials" as saying that Mullah Abdullah Zakir is "in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan." One anonymous intelligence official cited by the AP says Rasoul's "stated mission is to counter the U.S. troop surge" that began earlier this year in Afghanistan.

The Times (UK) has confirmed the AP's story and provided additional details. The Times reported that Rasoul is "responsible for increasingly sophisticated explosives attacks on British soldiers in Afghanistan" and is currently operating out of the Taliban stronghold in Quetta, Pakistan. Prior to his detention at Guantanamo, he was a "high-ranking military commander close to the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Omar."

"In the time of the Taliban government he was the commander of Taleban forces in Takhar province," a Taliban official told The Times. "He was one of Mullah Omar's deputies."

During his time at Guantanamo, the Department of Defense and other branches of the U.S. government thought that Rasoul was a committed jihadist. A memorandum prepared for Rasoul's first administrative review board (ARB) reads: "[Rasoul] stated that he felt it would be fine to wage Jihad against Americans, Jews, or Israelis if they were invading his country." Moreover, Rasoul "advised the he was called to fight Jihad in approximately 1997; he then went to Kabul to join the Taliban."

Rasoul was wounded, treated, and eventually rejoined the Taliban in September of 2001, according to U.S. government documents. "In approximately September of 2001," the administrative review board memo reads, "[Rasoul] went to Konduz to join up with his Taliban comrades to fight the Northern Alliance." He was given a "Kalishnikov rifle by the Taliban" and traveled to Konduz to fight the Northern Alliance. Rasoul was then "captured while riding in a car with a Taliban [l]eader named Mohammad."

In light of reports that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Sufyan bin Qumu was involved in the terrorist attack
on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, National Review presents the current
list of those who upon release from Guantanamo have returned to
terrorism. Sufyan bin Qumu
was released in 2007 to Libyan custody. The Libyans let him go in 2008
in an amnesty for former militants. According to intelligence sources,
he was directly involved in the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate
in Benghazi.

Ibrahim
Shafir Sen was released from Guantanamo in November 2003 to Turkey. He
was arrested in January 2008 and charged with leading an active al-Qaeda
cell.

Ibrahim
Bin Shakaran and Mohammed bin Ahmad Mizouz were transferred to Morocco
in July 2004. They were convicted in 2007 of recruiting Moroccans for
al-Qaeda in Iran.

Abdullah
Mahsud was released in Afghanistan in 2004. He was involved in the
kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in October 2004, and directed the
suicide bombing against an Islamabad hotel that killed 31 people. Mahsud
killed himself in July 2007 to avoid capture by Pakistani forces.
#more#

Ruslan
Anatolivich Odishev was sent to Russian in 2004. He took part in
several terrorist attacks in the Caucuses before he was killed in a
shootout with Russia’s Federal Security Service.

Ravil
Shafeyavich Gumarov and Timur Ravilich Ishmurat were released in Russia
in March 2004. They were convicted in 2006 of a bombing of a gas line.

Mohammed Ismail was released in 2004 and recaptured that same year in a Taliban attack on U.S. forces in Kandahar.

Maulvi
Abdul Ghaffar was returned to Afghanistan in 2002. He became the
regional Taliban commander in Uruzan and Helmand. He was killed in a
raid by Afghan security forces while planning an attack on Afghan
police.

Yousef
Muhammed Yaaqoub was released in 2003 and became a Taliban commander in
southern Afghanistan. He led the massive jailbreak from Kandahar’s
prison, and was killed in 2004 fighting U.S. forces.

Mohammed Nayim Farouq rejoined anti-coalition forces in Afghanistan following his release in 2003.

Abdul Rahman Noor was released in July 2003, and has since been identified as the deputy defense minister of the Taliban.

Abdallah
Salih al-Ajmi was sent to Kuwait in 2005 and became a suicide bomber in
Mosul, Iraq, in April 2008. The attack killed seven people.

Abu
Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shiri and Mazin Salih Musaid al-Alawi al-Awfi were
returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007. On January 24, 2008, they announced
their leadership within al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Abdullah
Kafkas was repatriated to Russia in 2004. He is suspected of
involvement in the 2005 Nalchik attack in which over 100 people were
killed in southern Russia.

Almasm
Rabilavich Sharipov was returned to Russia in 2004. Sharipov is
suspected of associating with the terrorist group Hezb-e-Tahrir.

Isa Khan was released in Pakistan in 2004. In 2010, he was arrested in Pakistan for rejoining the Taliban.

Abdullah Majid al-Naimi was repatriated to Bahrain in 2005. He was arrested in October 2008 and had rejoined al-Qaeda.

Saad Madhi Saad al Azmi was returned to Kuwait in 2005. He is suspected of also rejoining al-Qaeda.

Majid
Abdullah Lahiq al Joudi was repatriated to Saudi Arabia in 2007. He has
been confirmed as a facilitator of terrorism since his release.

Humud
Dakhil Humud Said al-Jadan was returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007. He is
suspected of associating with known terrorists since his release.

Abd
al Hadi Abdallah Ibrahim al Sharikh was repatriated to Saudi Arabia in
2007. He is currently on Saudi Arabia’s most-wanted list for suspected
terrorists.

Zahir Shah was released in Afghanistan in 2007. He has been confirmed as returning to terrorism.

Abdullah
Gulam Rasoul was also released in Afghanistan in 2007. He is now a
leader in the Taliban, and led the major Taliban offensive against
coalition forces in 2009. Abdullah Gulam Rasoul reportedly became the second-in-command of the Taliban in 2010.

Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil was returned to Afghanistan in 2008. He is suspected of rejoining anti-coalition forces.

A
few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the Guantanamo Bay
prison, hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus, sits a
closely held secret. A dirt road winds its way to a clearing where
eight small cottages sit in two rows of four. They have long been
abandoned. The special detachment of Marines that once provided security
is gone. But in the early years after 9/11, these cottages were part of
a covert CIA program. Its secrecy has outlasted black prisons,
waterboarding and rendition.

In
these buildings, CIA officers turned terrorists into double agents and
sent them home. It was a risky gamble. If it worked, their agents might
help the CIA find terrorist leaders to kill with drones. But officials
knew there was a chance that some prisoners might quickly spurn their
deal and kill Americans.

For
the CIA, that was an acceptable risk in a dangerous business. For the
American public, which was never told, it was one of the many secret
trade-offs the government made on its behalf. At the same time the
government used the threat of terrorism to justify imprisoning people
indefinitely, it was releasing dangerous people from prison to work for
the CIA. Nearly a dozen current and former U.S officials described
aspects of the program to The Associated Press. All spoke on condition
of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the
secret program, even though it ended in about 2006.

The
program and the handful of men who passed through these cottages had
various official CIA codenames. But those who were aware of the cluster
of cottages knew it best by its sobriquet: Penny Lane. It was a nod to
the classic Beatles song and a riff on the CIA's other secret facility
at Guantanamo Bay, a prison known as Strawberry Fields.

Some
of the men who passed through Penny Lane helped the CIA find and kill
many top al-Qaida operatives, current and former U.S. officials said.
Others stopped providing useful information and the CIA lost touch with
them.When prisoners began streaming into the prison on the U.S. naval
base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in January 2002, the CIA recognized it as
an unprecedented opportunity to identify sources. That year, 632
detainees arrived at the island. The following year 117 more arrived.

"Of
course that would be an objective," said Emile Nakhleh, a former top
CIA analyst who spent time in 2002 assessing detainees but who did not
discuss Penny Lane. "It's the job of intelligence to recruit sources."

By early 2003, Penny Lane was open for business. Candidates
were ushered from the confines of prison to Penny Lane's relative
hominess, officials said. The cottages had private kitchens, showers and
televisions. Each had a small patio. Some prisoners asked for and
received pornography. One official said the biggest luxury in each
cottage was the bed, not a military-issued cot but a real bed with a
mattress. The cottages were designed to feel more like hotel rooms than
prison cells, and some CIA officials jokingly referred to them
collectively as the Marriott.

A
senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Israel’s
spy agency, Mossad, of training ISIL terrorists operating in Iraq and
Syria, Press TV reports. Alexander Prokhanov told Press TV that Mossad
is also likely to have transferred some of its spying experiences to the
ISIL leadership, adding that Israel’s military advisors could be
assisting the Takfiri terrorists. Prokhanov said ISIL is a byproduct of
US policies in the Middle East.

"ISIL is a tool at the hands of the United States. They tell the
Europeans that if we (the Americans) do not intervene, ISIL will cause
you harm," he said, adding that Iran and Russia are the prime targets of
the ISIL. They launched their first terror attack against us just a few
days back in Chechnya," he said, stressing that the ISIL ideology has
got nothing to do with the Islam practiced in Iran and some other Muslim
countries in the Middle East region.

Prokhanov
said the United States and Israel are one and the same when it comes to
supporting a terror organization like the ISIL. The ISIL terrorist
group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, have been
committing heinous crimes against people of both Arab states. On the
issue of Western sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis,
Prokhanov said President Putin is not going to give in to pressure. He
said sanctions will only make Russians more resilient.

The Iranians have made these allegations of Israeli terrorist attacks carried out by MEK for quite a while, but only now does it have confirmation from U.S. officials. Mohammad Javad Larijani, a senior aide to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a recent interview with NBC News claimed they knew Israel was funding MEK, sharing intelligence, and training them inside Israel in the use of motorcycles and bombs. The Iranians say much of their intelligence on this matter has come from interrogations with an MEK member that carried out one of the assassination attempts. The MEK has denied these allegations, issuing a statement calling them “absolutely false.”

The only problem is, it apparently didn’t happen. At least not the
way ABC News claims. Instead of being direct US backing, by way of the
CIA, for a State Department listed terrorist organization (a big no-no),
Foreign Policy is reporting today that the whole thing was actually a Mossad plot designed to frame the CIA and the administration. Officials cite internal memos, classified of course, from the 2007
and 2008 investigation into the allegations, which found that in reality
the people who bought off Jundallah were Mossad agents, with faked US
passports and large amounts of US dollars.

“It’s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,”
one of the officials said. “Their recruitment activities were nearly in
the open. They apparently didn’t give a damn what we thought.” Indeed the unspoken goal of the “false flag” appears to have been to
damage what little trust the Iranian government had in the US. Captured
Jundallah leaders confessed on Iranian TV that they were funded and directed by the CIA, and apparently they believed that is what was happening.

It’s
seems counterintuitive, to say the least. Indeed, it seems quite mad.
And yet we now have all the evidence we need to point to a de facto
Israeli alliance with Al Qaeda. The bombing of Damascus suburbs by Israeli jets – purportedly
in order to prevent the Syrians from supplying Hezbollah with long
range missiles – at precisely the moment when the Syrian “rebels” are demanding
Western intervention on their behalf highlights one of the most bizarre
alliances in history. Bizarre, yes, but inexplicable? Not at all.

The Syrian government is claiming
the Israelis “coordinated” their attack with the rebels, but this seems
problematic – and is largely irrelevant. Yes, a rebel spokesman “blessed”
the Israeli strike, but I rather doubt there’s ongoing communication
between the rebel leadership and Tel Aviv. It’s simply not necessary:
after all, their goals in the region are complementary, if not
identical. The Sunni extremists who comprise Al Qaeda have been in the front lines in the battle against Bashar al-Assad, and are also bitterly hostile to the mullahs of Tehran, whom they consider heretics: Israel, for its part, has launched its own holy war
against Iran for quite different reasons, and is eager to take out
Assad: regardless of motives their goals do coincide. Both want chaos in
Syria – the Israelis, in order to eliminate a longstanding thorn in
their side, and the jihadists because they thrive in failed states, like
Lebanon.

Why would the Israelis aid a “rebel” army made up almost exclusively of hardened jihadists who supposedly hate Israel and want to see its non-Arab inhabitants driven into the sea? For the same reason they initiallynurtured Hamas
– because they believe it serves their long range purposes. The reason
the Israelis granted official legal status to the group that eventually
morphed into one of the Jewish state’s most implacable enemies was
simple: to divide the Palestinian resistance, and therefore weaken it.
At the time, Fatah, the largest component of the secular Palestinian
Liberation Organization, was the most effective opposition to the
Israeli occupation. The Israelis thought aiding an Islamist competitor
would achieve certain desired ends: the decline of the PLO’s influence, the alienation of Arab governments from the Palestinian cause, and the marginalization of that cause in Western eyes. All three goals have since been achieved.

The
Israelis are assisting the Syrian jihadists for similar reasons:
because it fits in rather neatly with their long-range goals. For a look
at those goals, all you have to do is peruse a 1996 document prepared
for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by leading neoconservatives,
proposing a radical new Israeli “defense” strategy. Reading “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” is like reading a timeline of events in the Middle East for the past ten years. As I wrote
in October of 2003, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the
Yom Kippur War – a day when Israel bombed alleged “terrorist camps” in
Syria:

“The paper, co-authored by Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser,
portrayed Syria as the main enemy of Israel, but maintained the road to
Damascus had to first pass through Baghdad: “‘Israel can shape its
strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by
weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can
focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq – an important
Israeli strategic objective in its own right – as a means of foiling
Syria’s regional ambitions. Jordan has challenged Syria’s regional
ambitions recently by suggesting the restoration of the Hashemites in
Iraq.’”

Well, we didn’t get the Hashemites – but Maliki will do. Or, rather, near complete chaos
will suffice, as the religious civil war wracking the Muslim world
takes another potential enemy out of contention. Now that Iraq lies bleeding
by the wayside, King Bibi is speeding down that “Clean Break” highway,
eager to turn two more regional rivals into roadkill. As I have written
before, Syria is our Spain – a proxy war prefiguring a much larger conflict, with the US, Israel, Turkey, Jordan, and Al Qaeda (in the guise of the “Al Nusra Front”) versus the Syrian Ba’athists, Hezbollah, and – standing behind them – Iran.

Israel’s
role in this is key. It isn’t just Israeli jets providing air cover for
the jihadists in Syria: the Israel lobby has been going full tilt in a push to drag the US into the conflict. And they don’t care how they do it. The other day, in a debate on intervention in Syria on NPR, a representative of WINEP, the “educational” arm of AIPAC, accused anti-interventionist Joshua Landis
of “dual loyalty” because his wife is an Alawite! Of course, the Israel
lobby isn’t guilty of dual loyalty – their one and only loyalty is to
the state of Israel, nothing dual about it.

The “chemical weapons” hoax topped the long list of similar scams set up by the Syrian rebels and their Western supporters in its brazen effrontery: not since the “Niger uranium” papers have we seen such a downright sloppy scheme to lie us into war. Samples taken from rebel sources
tested positive for sarin – and the administration was supposed to
accept that at face value? Back to the drawing board, and the same old
question: how do we drag a reluctant US President into an open military confrontation with Iran?

Only
a few years ago it would’ve been hard to believe the Americans weren’t
clued in beforehand that Israeli jets would soon be pounding Damascus.
However, given the relations between this administration and the Netanyahu government, one is hardly shocked to learn it came as a surprise.
The War Party is playing its trump card – and we’ll see if the
President has anything up his sleeve to beat it. In an effort to stay
out of a major mess that could get far messier, the White House is up
against not only the Israel lobby, the McCain brigade, and powerful members
of his own party, he’s also swimming against the foreign policy current
that dominated the previous administration – and also his own.

It's September 11 all over again - eight years on. The George W Bush administration is out. The "global war on terror" is still on, renamed "overseas contingency operations" by the Barack Obama administration. Obama's "new strategy" - a war escalation - is in play in AfPak. Osama bin Laden may be dead or not. "Al-Qaeda" remains a catch-all ghost entity. September 11 - the neo-cons' "new Pearl Harbor" - remains the darkest jigsaw puzzle of the young 21st century. It's useless to expect US corporate media and the ruling elites' political operatives to call for a true, in-depth investigation into the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001. Whitewash has been the norm. But even establishment highlight Dr Zbig "Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski, a former national security advisor, has admitted to the US Senate that the post-9/11 "war on terror" is a "mythical historical narrative".

The following questions, some multi-part - and most totally ignored by the 9/11 Commission - are just the tip of the immense 9/11 iceberg. A hat tip goes to the indefatigable work of 911truth.org; whatreallyhappened.com; architects and engineers for 9/11 truth; the Italian documentary Zero: an investigation into 9/11; and Asia Times Online readers' e-mails. None of these questions has been convincingly answered - according to the official narrative. It's up to US civil society to keep up the pressure. Eight years after the fact, one fundamental conclusion is imperative. The official narrative edifice of 9/11 is simply not acceptable.

Fifty questions

1) How come dead or not dead Osama bin Laden has not been formally indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as responsible for 9/11? Is it because the US government - as acknowledged by the FBI itself - has not produced a single conclusive piece of evidence? 2) How could all the alleged 19 razor-blade box cutter-equipped Muslim perpetrators have been identified in less than 72 hours - without even a crime scene investigation? 3) How come none of the 19's names appeared on the passenger lists released the same day by both United Airlines and American Airlines? 4) How come eight names on the "original" FBI list happened to be found alive and living in different countries? 5) Why would pious jihadi Mohammed Atta leave a how-to-fly video manual, a uniform and his last will inside his bag knowing he was on a suicide mission? 6) Why did Mohammed Atta study flight simulation at Opa Locka, a hub of no less than six US Navy training bases? 7) How could Mohammed Atta's passport have been magically found buried among the Word Trade Center (WTC)'s debris when not a single flight recorder was found? 8) Who is in the possession of the "disappeared" eight indestructible black boxes on those four flights? 9) Considering multiple international red alerts about a possible terrorist attack inside the US - including former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's infamous August 6, 2001, memo - how come four hijacked planes deviating from their computerized flight paths and disappearing from radar are allowed to fly around US airspace for more than an hour and a half - not to mention disabling all the elaborate Pentagon's defense systems in the process? 10) Why the secretary of the US Air Force James Roche did not try to intercept both planes hitting the WTC (only seven minutes away from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey) as well as the Pentagon (only 10 minutes away from McGuire)? Roche had no less than 75 minutes to respond to the plane hitting the Pentagon. 11) Why did George W Bush continue to recite "My Pet Goat" in his Florida school and was not instantly absconded by the secret service? 12) How could Bush have seen the first plane crashing on WTC live - as he admitted? Did he have previous knowledge - or is he psychic? 13) Bush said that he and Andrew Card initially thought the first hit on the WTC was an accident with a small plane. How is that possible when the FAA as well as NORAD already knew this was about a hijacked plane? 14) What are the odds of transponders in four different planes be turned off almost simultaneously, in the same geographical area, very close to the nation's seat of power in Washington, and no one scrambles to contact the Pentagon or the media? 15) Could defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld explain why initial media reports said that there were no fighter jets available at Andrews Air Force Base and then change the reports that there were, but not on high alert? 16) Why was the DC Air National Guard in Washington AWOL on 9/11? 17) Why did combat jet fighters of the 305th Air Wing, McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey not intercept the second hijacked plane hitting the WTC, when they could have done it within seven minutes? 18) Why did none of the combat jet fighters of the 459th Aircraft Squadron at Andrews Air Force Base intercept the plane that hit the Pentagon, only 16 kilometers away? And since we're at it, why the Pentagon did not release the full video of the hit? 19) A number of very experienced airline pilots - including US ally Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a former fighter jet pilot - revealed that, well, only crack pilots could have performed such complex maneuvers on the hijacked jets, while others insisted they could only have been accomplished by remote control. Is it remotely believable that the hijackers were up to the task? 20) How come a substantial number of witnesses did swear seeing and hearing multiple explosions in both towers of the WTC? 21) How come a substantial number of reputed architects and engineers are adamant that the official narrative simply does not explain the largest structural collapse in recorded history (the Twin Towers) as well as the collapse of WTC building 7, which was not even hit by a jet? 22) According to Frank de Martini, WTC's construction manager, "We designed the building to resist the impact of one or more jetliners." The second plane nearly missed tower 1; most of the fuel burned in an explosion outside the tower. Yet this tower collapsed first, long before tower 2 that was "perforated" by the first hit. Jet fuel burned up fast - and by far did not reach the 2000-degree heat necessary to hurt the six tubular steel columns in the center of the tower - designed specifically to keep the towers from collapsing even if hit by a Boeing 707. A Boeing 707 used to carry more fuel than the Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 that actually hit the towers. 23) Why did Mayor Rudolph Giuliani instantly authorized the shipment of WTC rubble to China and India for recycling? 24) Why was metallic debris found no less than 13 kilometers from the crash site of the plane that went down in Pennsylvania? Was the plane in fact shot down - under vice president Dick Cheney's orders? 25) The Pipelineistan question. What did US ambassador Wendy Chamberlain talk about over the phone on October 10, 2001, with the oil minister of Pakistan? Was it to tell him that the 1990s-planned Unocal gas pipeline project, TAP (Turkmenistan/Afghanistan/ Pakistan), abandoned because of Taliban demands on transit fees, was now back in business? (Two months later, an agreement to build the pipeline was signed between the leaders of the three countries). 26) What is former Unocal lobbyist and former Bush pet Afghan Zalmay Khalilzad up to in Afghanistan? 27) How come former Pakistani foreign minister Niaz Niak said in mid-July 2001 that the US had already decided to strike against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban by October? The topic was discussed secretly at the July Group of Eight summit in Genoa, Italy, according to Pakistani diplomats. 28) How come US ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine told FBI agent John O'Neill in July 2001 to stop investigating al-Qaeda's financial operations - with O'Neill instantly moved to a security job at the WTC, where he died on 9/11? 29) Considering the very intimate relationship between the Taliban and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and the ISI and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is Bin Laden alive, dead or still a valuable asset of the ISI, the CIA or both? 30) Was Bin Laden admitted at the American hospital in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on July 4, 2001, after flying from Quetta, Pakistan, and staying for treatment until July 11? 31) Did the Bin Laden group build the caves of Tora Bora in close cooperation with the CIA during the 1980s' anti-Soviet jihad? 32) How come General Tommy Franks knew for sure that Bin Laden was hiding in Tora Bora in late November 2001? 33) Why did president Bill Clinton abort a hit on Bin Laden in October 1999? Why did then-Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf abort a covert ops in the same date? And why did Musharraf do the same thing again in August 2001? 34) Why did George W Bush dissolve the Bin Laden Task Force nine months before 9/11? 35) How come the (fake) Bin Laden home video - in which he "confesses" to being the perpetrator of 9/11 - released by the US on December 13, 2001, was found only two weeks after it was produced (on November 9); was it really found in Jalalabad (considering Northern Alliance and US troops had not even arrived there at the time); by whom; and how come the Pentagon was forced to release a new translation after the first (botched) one? 36) Why was ISI chief Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmad abruptly "retired" on October 8, 2001, the day the US started bombing Afghanistan? 37) What was Ahmad up to in Washington exactly on the week of 9/11 (he arrived on September 4)? On the morning of 9/11, Ahmad was having breakfast on Capitol Hill with Bob Graham and Porter Goss, both later part of the 9/11 Commission, which simply refused to investigate two of its members. Ahmad had breakfast with Richard Armitage of the State Department on September 12 and 13 (when Pakistan negotiated its "cooperation" with the "war on terror") and met all the CIA and Pentagon top brass. On September 13, Musharraf announced he would send Ahmad to Afghanistan to demand to the Taliban the extradition of Bin Laden. 38) Who inside the ISI transferred US$100,000 to Mohammed Atta in the summer of 2001 - under orders of Ahmad himself, as Indian intelligence insists? Was it really ISI asset Omar Sheikh, Bin Laden's information technology specialist who later organized the slaying of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi? So was the ISI directly linked to 9/11? 39) Did the FBI investigate the two shady characters who met Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi in Harry's Bar at the Helmsley Hotel in New York City on September 8, 2001? 40) What did director of Asian affairs at the State Department Christina Rocca and the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef discuss in their meeting in Islamabad in August 2001? 41) Did Washington know in advance that an "al-Qaeda" connection would kill Afghan nationalist commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, aka "The Lion of the Panjshir", only two days before 9/11? Massoud was fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda - helped by Russia and Iran. According to the Northern Alliance, Massoud was killed by an ISI-Taliban-al Qaeda axis. If still alive, he would never have allowed the US to rig a loya jirga (grand council) in Afghanistan and install a puppet, former CIA asset Hamid Karzai, as leader of the country. 42) Why did it take no less than four months before the name of Ramzi Binalshibh surfaced in the 9/11 context, considering the Yemeni was a roommate of Mohammed Atta in his apartment cell in Hamburg? 43) Is pathetic shoe-bomber Richard Reid an ISI asset? 44) Did then-Russian president Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence tell the CIA in 2001 that 25 terrorist pilots had been training for suicide missions? 45) When did the head of German intelligence, August Hanning, tell the CIA that terrorists were "planning to hijack commercial aircraft?" 46) When did Egyptian President Mubarak tell the CIA about an attack on the US with an "airplane stuffed with explosives?" 47) When did Israel's Mossad director Efraim Halevy tell the CIA about a possible attack on the US by "200 terrorists?" 48) Were the Taliban aware of the warning by a Bush administration official as early as February 2001 - "Either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs?" 49) Has Northrop-Grumman used Global Hawk technology - which allows to remotely control unmanned planes - in the war in Afghanistan since October 2001? Did it install Global Hawk in a commercial plane? Is Global Hawk available at all for commercial planes? 50) Would Cheney stand up and volunteer the detailed timeline of what he was really up to during the whole day on 9/11?

One of the main objectives of war propaganda is to “fabricate an
enemy”. The “outside enemy” personified by Osama bin Laden is
“threatening America”. Pre-emptive war directed against “Islamic
terrorists” is required to defend the Homeland. Realities are turned
upside down. America is under attack.

In the wake of 9/11,
the creation of this “outside enemy” has served to obfuscate the real
economic and strategic objectives behind the war in the Middle East and
Central Asia. Waged on the grounds of self-defense, the pre-emptive war
is upheld as a “just war” with a humanitarian mandate. As anti-war
sentiment grows and the political legitimacy the Bush Administration
falters, doubts regarding the existence of this illusive “outside enemy”
must be dispelled.

Counter-terrorism and war propaganda are
intertwined. The propaganda apparatus feeds disinformation into the news
chain. The terror warnings must appear to be “genuine”. The objective
is to present the terror groups as “enemies of America.” Ironically, Al
Qaeda –the “outside enemy of America” as well as the alleged architect
of the 9/11 attacks– is a creation of the CIA.

From the outset
of the Soviet-Afghan war in the early 1980s, the US intelligence
apparatus has supported the formation of the “Islamic brigades”.
Propaganda purports to erase the history of Al Qaeda, drown the truth
and “kill the evidence” on how this “outside enemy” was fabricated and
transformed into “Enemy Number One”.

The US intelligence
apparatus has created it own terrorist organizations. And at the same
time, it creates its own terrorist warnings concerning the terrorist
organizations which it has itself created. Meanwhile, a cohesive
multibillion dollar counterterrorism program “to go after” these
terrorist organizations has been put in place.

Portrayed in
stylized fashion by the Western media, Osama bin Laden, supported by his
various henchmen, constitutes America’s post-Cold war bogeyman, who
“threatens Western democracy”. The alleged threat of “Islamic
terrorists”, permeates the entire US national security doctrine. Its
purpose is to justify wars of aggression in the Middle East, while
establishing within America, the contours of the Homeland Security
State.

Historical Background

What
are the historical origins of Al Qaeda? Who is Osama bin Laden?
The alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorists attacks, Saudi-born
Osama bin Laden, was recruited during the Soviet-Afghan war, “ironically
under the auspices of the CIA, to fight Soviet invaders”.(Hugh Davies,
“`Informers’ point the finger at bin Laden; Washington on alert for
suicide bombers.” The Daily Telegraph, London, 24 August 1998). In 1979
the largest covert operation in the history of the CIA was launched in
Afghanistan:

“With
the active encouragement of the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI, who wanted to
turn the Afghan Jihad into a global war waged by all Muslim states
against the Soviet Union, some 35,000 Muslim radicals from 40 Islamic
countries joined Afghanistan’s fight between 1982 and 1992. Tens of
thousands more came to study in Pakistani madrasahs. Eventually, more
than 100,000 foreign Muslim radicals were directly influenced by the
Afghan jihad.” (Ahmed Rashid, “The Taliban: Exporting Extremism”,
Foreign Affairs, November-December 1999).

This
project of the US intelligence apparatus was conducted with the active
support of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), which was
entrusted in channelling covert military aid to the Islamic brigades and
financing, in liason with the CIA, the madrassahs and Mujahideen
training camps. U.S. government support to the Mujahideen was presented
to world public opinion as a “necessary response” to the 1979 Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan in support of the pro-Communist government of
Babrak Kamal.

The world’s mass media have recently publicized the case of Susan Lindauer, a former CIA operative who was arrested under the Patriot Act after she attempted to testify about 9-11 and U.S. Government foreknowledge and involvement in the attacks of 9-11-2001. The U.S. Government sent 5 FBI agents to her home and arrested her and then attempted to administer psychotropic drugs to her and hold her without trial or hearing.

Since 9-11 the mass media, in particular in the U.S. has almost never publicized the plights of the thousands of voices who have had evidence which runs contrary to the official version of 9-11. The voices which have come out against the official narrative of 9-11 have included structural engineers, respected scientists, military personnel, professors, eyewitnesses, reporters, bloggers and countless in what can be loosely termed the 9-11 truth movement.

For the most part anyone who has had anything to say against the official narrative, no matter how well-founded or researched or provable, has been marginalized, ignored, threatened or even disappeared. Why the mass media is finally running with the story of a CIA operative who was arrested on false grounds is a little odd at this late date but it has thrown the cover up of the events of 9-11 back on the front page.

According to various data and open source intelligence there were perhaps upwards of 9,000 people secretly arrested, detained or disappeared after 9-11 bring the toll on human lives and the number of those affected adversely by the events into the tens of thousands. This does not include those killed maimed or affected by the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan and in the entire “War on Terror”. Some say the events of 9-11 were planned as a catalyst for the entire post 9-11 environment and the War on Terror paradigm, with its accompanying global militarization and the spread of the surveillance state, as well as what has been effectively a war on Islam.

Susan Lindauer claims that the events of 9-11 were planned by Mossad, something that has been echoed by others, claiming that the events of 9-11 allowed for the planned disintegration of Israel’s enemies in the Middle East and the guaranteed U.S. military presence in the region. For the U.S. this has allowed them to effectively take control of the resources in the oil rich region one country after the other and served as a pretext for the military takeover of the world.

For many years the timeline of the events leading up to and subsequent to 9-11 have been one of the most clear and unarguable pieces of evidence pointing to something terribly wrong with the official U.S. narrative, coupled with scientific evidence and the controlled demolition of building 7, an event which Larry Silverstein himself admitted to ordering in an interview on the record. Some of the key events related to 9-11 that have been documented and proven are as follows:

1. August 1997 FEMA's Emergency Response to Terrorism handbook depicts the World Trade center in crosshairs.

2. In 1999 NORAD conducted hijacking exercises where planes were flown into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

3. June 2000 DOJ releases a terrorism manual with the World Trade Center in crosshairs again.

4. September 2000 the Project for a New American Century releases a report called Rebuilding America's Defenses in which they state that without an event such as a new Pearl Harbor the process of transformation is likely to be a long one.

5. October 24, 2000 the Pentagon conducts the first in a series of training exercises called MASCAL the pretext of which is a passenger airliner, a Boeing 757, crashing into the Pentagon. Charles Burlingame an ex Navy F-4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon participated in the exercise before retiring to take a job with American Airlines, less than a year later the American Airlines plane, a Boeing 757, that he was the Captain of supposedly crashed into the Pentagon.

6. April 2001 NORAD plans an exercise in which a plane is flown into the Pentagon but it is rejected as too unrealistic.

7. June 2001 new instructions are implemented to deal with intervention in the case of a hijacking, part of it reads: " For all non-immediate responses the DOD must get permission directly from the SOD. Donald Rumsfeld. Attorney General John Ashcroft begins flying only on charter jets due to a threat assessment by the FBI.

8. July 4, 2001 Osama Bin Laden receives medical help at the American Hospital in Dubai. While he is there he is visited by the local chief of the CIA.

9. July 24, 2001 Larry A Silverstein signs a 3.2 billion dollar 99 year lease on the entire World Trade Center complex, this was six weeks before 9-11, part of the lease included a 3.5 billion dollar insurance policy that specifically covered acts of terrorism.

10. September 6, 2001 suspicious trading of American Airlines stock takes place. Bomb sniffing dogs were pulled off the World Trade Center and security guards were pulled of the twelve hour shifts that they had been working.

11. September 7, 2001 More excessive trading of American Airline stock involving PUT options which means that people were betting that the stock would fall.

12. September 10, 2001 more of the same. Newsweek reported that a number of top Pentagon officials cancelled their flight plans for the next morning. Willie Brown the Mayor of San Francisco receives a phone call from Condi Rice warning him not to fly the next day. In Pakistan at a military hospital all of the urologists are replaced by a special team in order to host Osama Bin Laden, who was well cared for and looked after.

13. September 11, 2001 with most of the intercept aircraft on training exercises in Canada and in the far North or sent far from Washington and New York on training exercises, there were only 14 aircraft left to guard the entire United States.

Experts said it could not have flown at those speeds without going into a high speed stall and that at such high Gs the plane would have just fallen out of the sky. All of the experienced air traffic controllers who watched the plane that was supposed to be flight 77 maneuvering and turning believed that it was a military fighter plane. All of the lights poles that flight 77 was supposed to have sheered of seemed to have just popped out of the ground, under normal circumstances they would have ripped the wings right off of the planes. If you look at the photos and listen to the eyewitness accounts it is clear that a commercial airliner did not hit the pentagon the damage was consistent with a missile strike.

Although the plane was supposed to have melted upon impact all of the bodies on board were identified by the same forensic laboratory that identified the non casualties in Pennsylvania. You get the idea. The only piece of wreckage was part of a J3-8D turbojet engine from a US Air force A-3 Sky Warrior. The few A-3s left are stored by Ratheon in Van Nuys California. A diffuser case was also found not belonging to a 757. Through analysis it is clear that a missile such as a Tomahawk was used to create the damage.

9:59 The South Tower collapses in about ten seconds, 29 minutes later the North Tower collapses in about ten seconds as well. 5:20 World Trade Center 7, a 47 story office building 300 feet away from the World Trade Center collapses in under 6 seconds into a neat little pile, while all of the buildings surrounding it were undamaged. These are the first three building in history to collapse because of a fire. The buildings came down in almost free fall speed, witnesses, video-tapes and expert testimony make it clear the World Trade Center was demolished using controlled explosions that had been placed in the buildings in strategic locations earlier and then detonated in order to cause the buildings to collapse, some witnesses reported up to six simultaneous explosions concurrent with the six support structures of the buildings.10:00 Cleveland Hopkins Airport was evacuated amidst fears that a hijacked plane was about to land. 10:06 Flight 93 was supposedly headed for the White House and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania witnesses said there was nothing to be seen at the crash scene and nothing that resembled an airline crash. The debris that was found was able to be carried away by hand in several plastic bags. 10:10 The sixty nine people on flight 1989, the first plane that landed in Cleveland, were evacuated to the FAA HQ in two hours and twenty minutes and later released. 10:45 The two hundred people on board flight 93 were evacuated to a special NASA building in under thirty minutes and never heard from again. 11:43 Cleveland WCPO a local television station in Cincinnati Ohio reported that two planes landed at Cleveland Hopkins Airport due to a bomb threat, United identified the plane as flight 93.

October 12, 2001 Donald Rumsfeld, in an interview with Parade Magazine, mentions a missile that damaged the World Trade Center even though officially one was never mentioned. Bin Laden's original statement: "The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every attack. I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons. I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations."

April 10, 2003 Chicago O'Hare: flight 93 is spotted its tail number N591UA is spotted on flight 1111. According to the FAA N612UA the Pentagon plane and N591UA, the Pennsylvania plane, are still valid numbers. 9 of the 19 hijackers are still alive and well. Silverstein demanded 7.2 billion dollars from his insurers. Received 2.2b. There is suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the time of the crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding $100 million. $160 billion dollars in gold vanished but only $200 million was found in an empty ten wheeled truck with an empty escort of cars which had been abandoned just before the south tower.

With the current PRISM and other revelations, will people begin to question? The truth is so disturbing that the average person does not want to accept it, but the truth is something that can not be hidden forever and when the truth does finally come out it will shake the world, or perhaps it may be too late. Susan Lindauer, the former CIA operative, knows that Bush and Cheney had advanced knowledge of 9-11 and the world is now beginning to listen, perhaps this one clue will be enough to begin to bring down the house of cards.

A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned.

Bruce Ivins, 62,
who for the past 18 years worked at the government's elite biodefense
research laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., had been informed of his
impending prosecution, said people familiar with Ivins, his death and
with the FBI investigation. Ivins, whose name had not been disclosed
publicly as a suspect in the case, had played a central role in research
to improve anthrax vaccines by preparing anthrax formulations used in
experiments on animals. Regarded as a skilled microbiologist, Ivins
also had helped the FBI analyze the powdery material recovered from one
of the anthrax-tainted envelopes sent to a U.S. senator's office in
Washington, D.C.

Ivins died
Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after having ingested a massive
dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, said a friend and
colleague who declined to be identified out of concern, he said, that
he would be harassed by the FBI. The death - without any mention of
suicide - was announced to Ivins' colleagues at the U.S. Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in an e-mail.
"People here are pretty shook up about it," said Caree Vander Linden, a
spokeswoman for USAMRIID, who said she was not at liberty to discuss
details surrounding the death. The anthrax mailings killed five people,
crippled national mail service, shut down a Senate office building and
spread fear of terrorism in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. The
extraordinary turn of events came after the government's payment in
June of a settlement valued at $5.82 million to a former government
scientist, Steven Hatfill, who was long targeted as the FBI's chief
suspect despite a lack of any evidence that he had ever possessed
anthrax.Soon after the
government's settlement with Hatfill was announced June 27, Ivins began
showing signs of serious strain. One of his longtime colleagues told
the Times that Ivins, who was being treated for depression, indicated
to a therapist that he was considering suicide. Soon thereafter, family
members and local police officers escorted Ivins away from USAMRIID,
where his access to sensitive areas was curtailed, the colleague said.
Ivins was committed to a facility in Frederick for treatment of his
depression. July 24, he was released from the facility. The scientist
faced forced retirement, planned for September, said his longtime
colleague, who described Ivins as emotionally fractured by the federal
scrutiny. A spokeswoman for the FBI, Debra Weierman, said Thursday that
the bureau would not comment regarding the death of Ivins. Last week,
however, FBI Director Mueller told CNN that, "in some sense, there have
been breakthroughs" in the case.

The Mysterious Death of Dr. David Kelly. Was He Murdered? The Official Verdict Was Suicide…

Provided herewith are the introductory sections of this important report on the Death of Dr. David Kelly. Read complete report here. Dr David Kelly was a British scientist, who worked as a weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM). He was renowned for his expertise in his field; over the course of his career, he developed an intricate understanding of Iraq’s weapons programmes. Thus, the government and secret services regularly sought his advice.(49)

On March 19th 2003, five countries, including the UK and US, invaded Iraq. The basis for this war had been laid out in two dossiers (Section 3), published in the preceding months, to which Kelly had contributed. However, when he began to raise concerns about the integrity of these documents, he would find himself caught in a political storm. Four months later, Kelly was dead. The official verdict was suicide; a decision that many believe is flawed. Twelve years later, many questions remain unanswered, and the search for the truth continues.

There are many aspects to the case, and these cannot be considered in isolation. The complexity demands an appreciation for how the evidence interacts within the wider context surrounding the key event. Therefore, this report will address the events chronologically, regularly analysing how they may have contributed to the death of David Kelly. The report will then draw upon this essential information to outline the main theories and their relevance within the underlying context.

Offering
new revelations about the CIA's role in shutting down military
intelligence penetration of al-Qaeda, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer joins a
growing list of government officials accusing former CIA director George
Tenet of misleading federal investigators and sharing some degree of
blame for the 9/11 attacks.

A decorated ex-clandestine operative
for the Pentagon offers new revelations about the role the US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) played in the shut-down of the military's
notorious Able Danger program, alleged to have identified five of the 9/11 hijackers inside America more than a year before the attacks.Lt.
Col. Anthony Shaffer joins a growing list of government officials
accusing former CIA director George Tenet of misleading federal bodies
and sharing some degree of blame for the attacks. Shaffer also adds to a
picture emerging of the CIA's Bin Laden unit as having actively
prevented other areas of intelligence, law enforcement and defense from
properly carrying out their counterterrorism functions in the run-up to
September 2001.

Former
Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of
Operation Gladio, has told Italy’s oldest and most widely read
newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and
Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence
agencies. In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the
newspaper Corriere della Sera: “All the [intelligence services] of
America and Europe…know well that the disastrous attack has been planned
and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in
order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to
induce the western powers to take part … in Iraq [and] Afghanistan.”

Cossiga was
elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a
landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he
remained until 1992. Cossiga’s tendency to be outspoken upset the
Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after
revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation
Gladio. This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that
carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and ’80s.
Gladio’s specialty was to carry out what they termed “false flag”
operations—terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and
geopolitical opposition.
[...]

Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer, $3+ billion a year.

Over the years, American taxpayers have been required to send Israel more than four times what the US spent to go to the moon. What Israel has done in return was to set up government subsidized telecommunications companies which operate here in the United States. One of these companies is Amdocs, which provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the phone companies in the USA. Amdocs' main computer center for billing is actually in Israel and allows those with access to do what intelligence agencies call "traffic analysis"; a picture of someone's activities based on a pattern of who they are calling and when. Another Israeli telecom company is Comverse Infosys, which subcontracts the installation of the automatic tapping equipment now built into every phone system in America.

Comverse maintains its own connections to all this phone tapping equipment, insisting that it is for maintenance purposes only. However, Converse has been named as the most likely source for leaked information regarding telephone calls by law enforcement that derailed several investigations into not only espionage, but drug running as well. Yet another Israeli telecom company is Odigo, which provides the core message passing system for all the "Instant Message" services. Two hours before the attacks on the World Trade Towers, Odigo employees received a warning. Odigo has an office 2 blocks from the former location of the World Trade Towers. Let us be clear here. There is nothing benign about Israel spying on the United States. When Jonathan Pollard stole our nuclear secrets (which your taxes paid to develop) and sent them to Israel, Israel did not hesitate to trade those secrets to the USSR in exchange for increased emigration quotas.

The implication of these facts is that the billions of our tax dollars sent to Israel (while women and children sleep in America's alleys and eat out of trash bins) have bought and paid for a monstrous phone tracking and phone tapping system that can eavesdrop on almost any phone call in America. Even the White House phones were open to such tapping by listening in on the other end outside the White House itself. This actually happened. The Ken Starr report on Whitewater describes how Bill Clinton informed Monica Lewinsky that their phone sex conversations had been recorded. At the same time, Clinton ordered the FBI to cease the hunt for an Israeli mole known to be operating inside the White House itself! So here we have a foreign nation able to listen in on most phones at will, using taps that cannot be found because they are built into the phone system itself, and willing to use the information gleaned from those calls to blackmail Americans into any desired course of action. This may well be what Ariel Sharon meant when he stated that the Jewish people control America.

That the information gleaned from these phone taps is being used to coerce the behavior of key individuals in the US Government and media is illustrated by the manner in which the government and the media have handled this scandal of the largest spy ring ever uncovered inside the United States, and of phone taps on all of our phones. They are downplaying it. Actually, burying it is a better word. Fox News, alone of all the media, actually ran the story as a four part broadcast, and put the story up on its web site. Then, without explanation, Fox News erased the story from their web site and have never mentioned it again. CNN followed by "Orwellizing" their report of the two hour advance warning of the WTC attacks sent to Odigo employees. But far more telling is the admission made by a US Official in part one of the Fox News report that hard evidence existed linking the events of 9/11 not to Arab Muslims, but to some of the more than 200 Israeli spies arrested both before and after 9/11, but that this evidence had been CLASSIFIED...

On
the afternoon of September 11, 2001, an FBI bulletin known as a BOLO
x- "be on lookout" -- was issued with regard to three suspicious men
who that morning were seen leaving the New Jersey waterfront minutes
after the first plane hit World Trade Center 1. Law enforcement
officers across the New York-New Jersey area were warned in the radio
dispatch to watch for a "vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist
attack": White, 2000 Chevrolet van with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on
back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first
impact of jetliner into World Trade Center Three individuals with van
were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion.
FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for
prints and detain individuals.

At 3:56 p.m.,
twenty-five minutes after the issuance of the FBI BOLO, officers with
the East Rutherford Police Department stopped the commercial moving van
through a trace on the plates. According to the police report, Officer
Scott DeCarlo and Sgt. Dennis Rivelli approached the stopped van,
demanding that the driver exit the vehicle. The driver, 23-year-old
Sivan Kurzberg, refused and "was asked several more times [but]
appeared to be fumbling with a black leather fanny pouch type of bag".
With guns drawn, the police then "physically removed" Kurzberg, while
four other men x- two more men had apparently joined the group since
the morning x- were also removed from the van, handcuffed, placed on
the grass median and read their Miranda rights.They had not
been told the reasons for their arrest. Yet, according to DeCarlo's
report, "this officer was told without question by the driver [Sivan
Kurzberg],'We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our
problems. The Palestinians are the problem.'"

Another of the five
Israelis, again without prompting, told Officer DeCarlo x- falsely x-
that "we were on the West Side Highway in New York City during the
incident". From inside the vehicle the officers, who were quickly joined
by agents from the FBI, retrieved multiple passports and $4,700 in
cash stuffed in a sock. According to New Jersey's Bergen Record, which
on September 12 reported the arrest of the five Israelis, an
investigator high up in the Bergen County law enforcement hierarchy
stated that officers had also discovered in the vehicle "maps of the
city with certain places highlighted. It looked like they're hooked in
with this", the source told the Record, referring to the 9/11 attacks.
"It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at
Liberty State Park."The five men were
indeed Israeli citizens. They claimed to be in the country working as
movers for Urban Moving Systems Inc., which maintained a warehouse and
office in Weehawken, New Jersey. They were held for 71 days in a
federal detention center in Brooklyn, New York, during which time they
were repeatedly interrogated by FBI and CIA counterterrorism teams, who
referred to the men as the "high-fivers" for their celebratory
behavior on the New Jersey waterfront. Some were placed in solitary
confinement for at least forty days; some were given as many as seven
liedetector tests. One of the Israelis, Paul Kurzberg, brother of
Sivan, refused to take a lie-detector test for ten weeks. Then he
failed it.Meanwhile, two
days after the men were picked up, the owner of Urban Moving Systems,
Dominik Suter, a 31- year-old Israeli national, abandoned his business
and fled the United States for Israel. Suter's departure was abrupt,
leaving behind coffee cups, sandwiches, cell phones and computers
strewn on office tables and thousands of dollars of goods in storage.
Suter was later placed on the same FBI suspect list as 9/11 lead
hijacker Mohammed Atta and other hijackers and suspected al-Qaeda
sympathizers, suggesting that U.S. authorities felt Suter may have
known something about the attacks. The suspicion, as the investigation
unfolded, was that the men working for Urban Moving Systems were spies.
Who exactly was handling them, and who or what they were targeting,
was as yet uncertain.It was New
York's venerable Jewish weekly The Forward that broke this story in the
spring of 2002, after months of footwork. The Forward reported that the
FBI had finally concluded that at least two of the men were agents
working for the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that Urban
Moving Systems, the ostensible employer of the five Israelis, was a
front operation. Two former CIA officers confirmed this to me, noting
that movers' vans are a common intelligence cover. The Forward also
noted that the Israeli government itself admitted that the men were
spies. A "former high-ranking American intelligence official", who said
he was "regularly briefed on the investigation by two separate law
enforcement officials", told reporter Marc Perelman that after American
authorities confronted Jerusalem at the end of 2001, the Israeli
government "acknowledged the operation and apologized for not
coordinating it with Washington". Today, Perelman stands by his
reporting. I asked him if his sources in the Mossad denied the story.
"Nobody stopped talking to me", he said.In June 2002, ABC
News' 20/20 followed up with its own investigation into the matter,
coming to the same conclusion as The Forward. Vincent Cannistraro,
former chief of operations for counterterrorism with the CIA, told
20/20 that some of the names of the five men appeared as hits in
searches of an FBI national intelligence database. Cannistraro told me
that the question that most troubled FBI agents in the weeks and months
after 9/11 was whether the Israelis had arrived at the site of their
"celebration" with foreknowledge of the attack to come. From the
beginning, "the FBI investigation operated on the premise that the
Israelis had foreknowledge", according to Cannistraro. A second former
CIA counterterrorism officer who closely followed the case, but who
spoke on condition of anonymity, told me that investigators were
pursuing two theories. "One story was that [the Israelis] appeared at
Liberty State Park very quickly after the first plane hit. The other
was that they were at the park location already". Either way,
investigators wanted to know exactly what the men were expecting when
they got there.Before such
issues had been fully explored, however, the investigation was shut
down. Following what ABC News reported were "high-level negotiations
between Israeli and U.S. government officials", a settlement was
reached in the case of the five Urban Moving Systems suspects. Intense
political pressure apparently had been brought to bear. The reputable
Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that by the last week of October 2001,
some six weeks after the men had been detained, Deputy Secretary of
State Richard Armitage and two unidentified "prominent New York
congressmen" were lobbying heavily for their release. According to a
source at ABC News close to the 20/20 report, high-profile criminal
lawyer Alan Dershowitz also stepped in as a negotiator on behalf of the
men to smooth out differences with the U.S. government. (Dershowitz
declined to comment for this article.) And so, at the end of November
2001, for reasons that only noted they had been working in the country
illegally as movers, in violation of their visas, the men were flown
home to Israel.Today, the
crucial questions raised by this matter remain unanswered. There is
sufficient reason x- from news reports, statements by former
intelligence officials, an array of circumstantial evidence, and the
reported acknowledgment by the Israeli government -x to believe that in
the months before 9/11, Israel was running an active spy network
inside the United States, with Muslim extremists as the target. Given
Israel's concerns about Islamic terrorism as well as its long history
of spying on U.S. soil, this does not come entirely as a shock. What's
incendiary is the idea -x supported, though not proven, by several
pieces of evidence x- that the Israelis did learn something about 9/11
in advance but failed to share all of what they knew with American
officials. The questions are disturbing enough to warrant a
Congressional investigation. Yet none of this information found its way
into Congress's joint committee report on the attacks, and it was not
even tangentially referenced in the nearly 600 pages of the 9/11
Commission's final report. Nor would a single major media outlet track
the revelations of The Forward and ABC News to investigate further.
"There weren't even stories saying it was bullshit", says The Forward's
Perelman. "Honestly, I was surprised". Instead, the story disappeared
into the welter of anti-Israel 9/11 conspiracy theories.It's no small
boon to the U.S. government that the story of 9/11-related Israeli
espionage has been thus relegated: the story doesn't fit in the clean
lines of the official narrative of the attacks. It brings up concerns
not only about Israel's obligation not to spy inside the borders of the
United States, its major benefactor, but about its possible failure to
have provided the U.S. adequate warning of an impending devastating
attack on American soil. Furthermore, the available evidence undermines
the carefully cultivated image of sanctity that defines the U.S.-
Israel relationship. These are all factors that help explain the
story's disappearance, and they are compelling reasons to revisit it
now.Torpedoing the FBI ProbeAll five future hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which rammed the Pentagon, maintained addresses or were active within a six-mile radius of towns associated with the Israelis employed at Urban Moving Systems. Hudson and Bergen counties, the areas where the Israelis were allegedly conducting surveillance, were a central staging ground for the hijackers of Flight 77 and their fellow al-Qaeda operatives. Mohammed Atta maintained a mail-drop address and visited friends in northern New Jersey; his contacts there included Hani Hanjour, the suicide pilot for Flight 77, and Majed Moqed, one of the strongmen who backed Hanjour in the seizing of the plane. Could the Israelis, with or without knowledge of the terrorists' plans, have been tracking the men who were soon to hijack Flight 77? In public
statements, both the Israeli government and the FBI have denied that
the Urban Moving Systems men were involved in an intelligence operation
in the United States. "No evidence recovered suggested any of these
Israelis had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attack, and these Israelis are
not suspected of working for Mossad", FBI spokesman Jim Margolin told
me. (The Israeli embassy did not respond to questions for this
article.) According to the source at ABC News, FBI investigators chafed
at the denials from their higher-ups. "There is a lot of frustration
inside the bureau about this case", the source told me. "They feel the
higher echelons torpedoed the investigation into the Israeli New Jersey
cell. Leads were not fully investigated". Among those lost leads was
the figure of Dominik Suter, whom the U.S. authorities apparently never
attempted to contact. Intelligence expert and author James Bamford
told me there was similar frustration within the CIA: "People I've
talked to at the CIA were outraged at what was going on. They thought
it was outrageous that there hadn't been a real investigation, that the
facts were hanging out there without any conclusion."However, what was
"absolutely certain", according to Vincent Cannistraro, was that the
five Israelis formed part of a surveillance network in the New York-
New Jersey area. The network's purpose was to track radical Islamic
extremists and/or supporters of militant Palestinian groups like Hamas
and Islamic Jihad.

Zbigniew
Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans in a 1997 Book -- It is "A
Blueprint for World Dictatorship," Says a Former German Defense and
NATO Official Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984, in an Exclusive
Interview With FTW.

These are the very first words in
the book, "Ever since the continents started interacting politically,
some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world
power." -- p. xiii. Eurasia is all of the territory east of Germany and
Poland, stretching all the way through Russia and China to the Pacific
Ocean. It includes the Middle East and most of the Indian
subcontinent. The key to controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is
controlling the Central Asian Republics. And the key to controlling the
Central Asian republics is Uzbekistan. Thus, it comes as no surprise
that Uzbekistan was forcefully mentioned by President George W. Bush in
his address to a joint session of Congress just days after the attacks
of September 11 as the very first place that the U.S. military would
be deployed.

As FTW has documented in previous
stories, major deployments of U.S. and British forces had taken place
before the attacks. And the U.S. Army and the CIA had been active in
Uzbekistan for several years. There is now evidence that what the world
is witnessing is a cold and calculated war plan -- at least four years
in the making -- and that, from reading Brzezinski's own words about
Pearl Harbor, the World Trade Center attacks were just the trigger
needed to set the final conquest in motion.

FTW,
November 7, 2001, 1200 PST -- There's a quote often attributed to Allen
Dulles after it was noted that the final 1964 report of the Warren
Commission on the assassination of JFK contained dramatic
inconsistencies. Those inconsistencies, in effect, disproved the
Commission's own final conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone on
November 22, 1963. Dulles, a career spy, Wall Street lawyer, the CIA
director whom JFK had fired after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco -- and the
Warren Commission member who took charge of the investigation and
final report -- is reported to have said, "The American people don't
read."

Some Americans do read. So do Europeans and Asians and Africans and Latin Americans.

World
events since the attacks of September 11, 2001 have not only been
predicted, but also planned, orchestrated and -- as their architects
would like to believe -- controlled. The current Central Asian war is
not a response to terrorism, nor is it a reaction to Islamic
fundamentalism. It is in fact, in the words of one of the most powerful
men on the planet, the beginning of a final conflict before total world
domination by the United States leads to the dissolution of all
national governments. This, says Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
member and former Carter National Security Advisor, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, will lead to nation states being incorporated into a new
world order, controlled solely by economic interests as dictated by
banks, corporations and ruling elites concerned with the maintenance
(by manipulation and war) of their power. As a means of intimidation
for the unenlightened reader who happens upon this frightening plan --
the plan of the CFR -- Brzezinski offers the alternative of a world in
chaos unless the U.S. controls the planet by whatever means are
necessary and likely to succeed.

This position is
corroborated by Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D. a former German defense
ministry official and advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred
Werner. On November 6, he told FTW, "The interests behind the Bush
Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission ( founded by
Brzezinski for David Rockefeller -- and the Bliderberger Group, have
prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship
within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists.
They are fighting against citizens."

Brzezinski's own
words -- laid against the current official line that the United States
is waging a war to end terrorism -- are self-incriminating. In an
ongoing series of articles, FTW has consistently established that the
U.S. government had foreknowledge of the World Trade Center attacks and
chose not to stop them because it needed to secure public approval for
a war that is now in progress. It is a war, as described by Vice
President Dick Cheney, "that may not end in our lifetimes." What that
means is that it will not end until all armed groups, anywhere in the
world, which possess the political, economic or military ability to
resist the imposition of this dictatorship, have been destroyed.

These
are the "terrorists" the U.S. now fights in Afghanistan and plans to
soon fight all over the globe. Before exposing Brzezinski (and those he
represents) with his own words, or hearing more from Dr. Koeppl, it is
worthwhile to take a look at Brzezinski's background. According to his
resume Brzezinski, holding a 1953 Ph.D. from Harvard, lists the
following achievements:

Counselor, Center for
Strategic and International Studies Professor of American Foreign
Policy, Johns Hopkins University National Security Advisor to President
Jimmy Carter (1977-81), Trustee and founder of the Trilateral
Commission, International advisor of several major US/Global
corporations, Associate of Henry Kissinger Under Ronald Reagan, member
of NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy
Under Ronald Reagan, member of the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board, Past member, Board of Directors, The Council on Foreign
Relations 1988, Co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task
Force.

Brzezinski is also a past attendee and
presenter at several conferences of the Bliderberger group -- a
non-partisan affiliation of the wealthiest and most powerful families
and corporations on the planet.

The Grand Chessboard

Brzezinski
sets the tone for his strategy by describing Russia and China as the
two most important countries -- almost but not quite superpowers -
whose interests that might threaten the U.S. in Central Asia. Of the
two, Brzezinski considers Russia to be the more serious threat. Both
nations border Central Asia. In a lesser context he describes the
Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as essential "lesser" nations
that must be managed by the U.S. as buffers or counterweights to
Russian and Chinese moves to control the oil, gas and minerals of the
Central Asian Republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and
Kyrgyzstan).

General Leonid Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces when the September 11, 2001, attacks took place. This military man, who lived the events from the inside, offers an analysis which is very different to that of his American colleagues. As he did during the Axis for Peace 2005 conference, he now explains that international terrorism does not exist and that the September 11 attacks were the result of a set-up. What we are seeing is a manipulation by the big powers; this terrorism would not exist without them. He affirms that, instead of faking a “world war on terror”, the best way to reduce that kind of attacks is through respect for international law and peaceful cooperation among countries and their citizens.

As the current international situation shows, terrorism emerges where contradiction aggravate, where there is a change of social relations or a change of regime, where there is political, economic or social instability, where there is moral decadence, where cynicism and nihilism triumph, where vice is legalized and where crime spreads. It is globalization what creates the conditions for the emergence of these extremely dangerous phenomena. It is in this context that the new world geo-strategic map is being designed, that the resources of the planet are being re-distributed, that borders are disappearing, that international law is being torn into pieces, that cultural identities are being erased, that spiritual life becomes impoverished...

The analysis of the essence of the globalization process, the military and political doctrines of the United States and other countries, shows that terrorism contributes to a world dominance and the submissiveness of states to a global oligarchy. This means that terrorism is not something independent of world politics but simply an instrument, a means to install a unipolar world with a sole world headquarters, a pretext to erase national borders and to establish the rule of a new world elite. It is precisely this elite that constitutes the key element of world terrorism, its ideologist and its “godfather”. The main target of the world elite is the historical, cultural, traditional and natural reality; the existing system of relations among states; the world national and state order of human civilization and national identity.

Today’s international terrorism is a phenomenon that combines the use of terror by state and non-state political structures as a means to attain their political objectives through people’s intimidation, psychological and social destabilization, the elimination of resistance inside power organizations and the creation of appropriate conditions for the manipulation of the countries’ policies and the behavior of people. Terrorism is the weapon used in a new type of war. At the same time, international terrorism, in complicity with the media, becomes the manager of global processes. It is precisely the symbiosis between media and terror, which allows modifying international politics and the exiting reality.

In this context, if we analyze what happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States, we can arrive at the following conclusions: 1. The organizers of those attacks were the political and business circles interested in destabilizing the world order and who had the means necessary to finance the operation. The political conception of this action matured there where tensions emerged in the administration of financial and other types of resources. We have to look for the reasons of the attacks in the coincidence of interests of the big capital at global and transnational levels, in the circles that were not satisfied with the rhythm of the globalization process or its direction. Unlike traditional wars, whose conception is determined by generals and politicians, the oligarchs and politicians submitted to the former were the ones who did it this time.

2. Only secret services and their current chiefs – or those retired but still having influence inside the state organizations – have the ability to plan, organize and conduct an operation of such magnitude. Generally, secret services create, finance and control extremist organizations. Without the support of secret services, these organizations cannot exist – let alone carry out operations of such magnitude inside countries so well protected. Planning and carrying out an operation on this scale is extremely complex.

3. Osama bin Laden and “Al Qaeda” cannot be the organizers nor the performers of the September 11 attacks. They do not have the necessary organization, resources or leaders. Thus, a team of professionals had to be created and the Arab kamikazes are just extras to mask the operation. The September 11 operation modified the course of events in the world in the direction chosen by transnational mafias and international oligarchs; that is, those who hope to control the planet’s natural resources, the world information network and the financial flows. This operation also favored the US economic and political elite that also seeks world dominance. The use of the term “international terrorism” has the following goals:

Hiding the real objectives of the forces deployed all over the world in the struggle for dominance and control; Turning the people’s demands to a struggle of undefined goals against an invisible enemy;
Destroying basic international norms and changing concepts such as:
aggression, state terror, dictatorship or movement of national
liberation;
Depriving peoples of their legitimate right to fight against
aggressions and to reject the work of foreign intelligence services;
Establishing the principle of renunciation to national interests,
transforming objectives in the military field by giving priority to the
war on terror, violating the logic of military alliances to the
detriment of a joint defense and to favor the anti-terrorist coalition;
Solving economic problems through a tough military rule using the war
on terror as a pretext. In order to fight in an efficient way against
international terrorism it is necessary to take the following steps:
To confirm before the UN General Assembly the principles of the UN
Charter and international law as principles that all states are obliged
to respect;
To create a geo-strategic organization (perhaps inspired in the
Cooperation Organization of Shanghai comprised of Russia, China,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) with a set of values
different to that of the Atlantists; to design a strategy of development
of states, a system of international security, another financial and
economic model (which would mean that the world would again rest on two
pillars);
To associate (under the United Nations) the scientific elites in the
design and promotion of the philosophical concepts of the Human Being of
the 21st Century.
To organize the interaction of all religious denominations in the
world, on behalf of the stability of humanity’s development, security
and mutual support.